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Old 09-21-2010
Syntax error using Awk

more report2.txt

Quote:
col1
col2
col3
col4
.
.
coln
how to modify the AWK to print above out put for given n no of inputs using report2.txt file?

out put should be

Quote:
A.col1=B.col1 and
A.col2 = B.col2 and
A.col3 = B.col3.
..
..
A.coln= B.coln where

Last edited by kanakaraju; 09-21-2010 at 07:10 AM..
kanakaraju
# 2  
Old 09-21-2010
try this,

Code:
awk '{print "A."$0,"=","B."$0,"AND"}' infile | sed '$s/AND/WHERE/'

# 3  
Old 09-21-2010
Code:
awk 'NR-1{printf "A.%s = B.%s and\n",n,n}{n=$1}END{printf "A.%s = B.%s where\n",n,n}' infile

# 4  
Old 09-21-2010
Thanks pravin and danmero ,

yes both are working for me .
kanakaraju
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