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Hi guys,

I have lots of files that look like:

ABC.packed.dir
DEF.packed.dir
GHI.packed.dir

etc...

I would like them to have more of the usual naming convention

ABC
DEF
GHI
...

it's mostly solved, and I say only because I still get one extraneous column and it leaves out one column.

as for printing $i can I just throw in print$i statements wherever I like?

thanxs...

raj, I'm sorry, I wasn't very clear. In part of the code you had written

{print $1,$2,$3"_L000102.txt"}

and in order for it to run without a sybtax error, I re-wrote it as
{print...

raj, your code works well although it does create an extraneous column of data (column 8) that doesn't appear to correlate to anything in the two input files, and it also leaves out one column of...

thank you!

what should I do about the complex filenames to batch over them?

thanks! you are correct, I forgot the curly brace in my post - ooops

will it work using bash, or just ksh, I have bash?

the file names are more complex than I first showed, sorry, here's some...

Hi guys,

I need a little help learning to batch an awk script. All the examples I found on line are too complicated for me. Here's the awk command that I want to run on lots of files.

awk...