08-10-2016
I'm not at all sure that I understand what you're trying to do here. And saying you're getting an error message without showing us the exact error you're getting leaves us with a lot of guess work. But whatever you do is going to need matched single quotes surrounding your awk script, and xargs is not likely to replace @ inside a double quoted string with the filenames you seem to want.
But even after you get the quotes fixed (and getting rid of the unneeded sh -c and the extra set of double quotes needed for that, you still have several syntax errors in your awk script. Please show us a sample of the data in one of these text files and the output you are hoping this awk script will produce from that sample input file.
Your first post implies that there are multiple fields in your text files, and that you want to examine every column, so we also need to know that your text files are using as field delimiters.
And, especially since you're depending on non-standard options in the xargs utility you're using, we also need to know what operating system and shell you're using.
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