I didn't write any new awk code; I slightly modified your two awk scripts and merged them into one script. If my script is picking up $6 from the wrong place, it is because that is what your script was doing.

Since you have not shown us anything at all about what your data looks like, I could only guess at what you're trying to do baed on your awk code. If I guessed wrong, you need to show us the format of the data (and a sample) we're supposed to process.

What do you mean the control is not coming out?

The script you showed us set COUNT, COUNT1, and ENDFLG and never did anything with any of them. I assumed you had code following what you showed us in your script that used one or more of those three variables (at least $COUNT).

My code only sets COUNT (since I couldn't see any need for the other two). I assumed you would add the other code you had hidden from us that would use $COUNT.

If you add the command:

Code:

printf 'COUNT is "%s"\n' "$COUNT"

to the end of the script I gave you, what does it print after the asynchronous writing process writes:

Code:

SomethingToIgnore TM_6020 Session [s_GenerateXMLDataFile] completed MaybeSomethingMoreToIgnore

into s_GenerateXMLDataFile.log?

If the writer terminates without writing the above line into the file, my script will hang forever waiting for the writer to finish its job. There is no way for this script to know that the writer is done writing if it doesn't write the line that says "I'm done" into the file.