Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I have some code like this

Code:

awk -F, '{
if ($1==3)
print $2 > "output_file"
print "1" > "new_file"
}' "input_file"

When I check output_file this has the correct values in it. However the new_file has 1 in it for every line in the input_file. If the input file has 20 lins then my new_file will contain 20 1's. I only want it to print 1 if the first field in my input field is 3 - at the moment it prints 1 regardless of what is in the first field.

Can somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

Code:

awk -F, '
{
   if ($1==3) {
      print $2 > "output_file"
      print "1" > "new_file"
   }
}' "input_file"

Many thanks, I feel a bit stupid now!!!