08-15-2008
how to include field in the output filename of awk
Im using awk and I want the output filename to contain the first field of the input file.
Ex.
1 dddd wwwww
1 eeeee wwww
1 wwww eerrrr
2 eeee eeeeee
I want the output files to be xxx1 and xxx2
Thank you
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