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Yes you can put a time interval between the awk script and the mv command. (Look at the man page for sleep.) Doing so will make your shell script run longer, but will not make any difference in the...

RudiC,
Note that High-T did get an infraction for using URGENT and double-posting in another thread. I decided that one infraction was required, but didn't think two infractions were necessary at...

A normalized version of the original script presented in post #1 in this thread with the corrections needed is:
awk '
BEGIN { OFS="\t"
out = "File3.txt"
}
NR == FNR {
if(NF)...

You can't change the shell's expansion of the input stream (= all files including paths being parameters to awk) from within the awk script: expansion is done before awk is run, and awk does not...

Either of the following should work:
Change:
awk '
BEGIN {
OFS="\t"
out = "File3.txt"
path-input = "/DR/m/"}to:

path_input="/DR/m/"
awk '
BEGIN {
OFS="\t"
out =...