Shell Programming and Scripting

for (i=1;i<=59;i++)
	{
	    sub(/  *$/,"", $i)
	}
	newrec_key = $2
	new_line = $0
	if (empty_oldfile==1)
	{
		#newly added record
		++num_add
		print "Added key: ", newrec_key > LogFile

		#print out the newly added record
		print new_line > OutputFile

	}

for (i=1;i<=59;i++)     #loop through 59 fields in each line of the input
	{
	    sub(/  *$/,"", $i)      #remove all spaces in each field
	}
	newrec_key = $2
	new_line = $0
	if (empty_oldfile==1)    #this variable might be somewhere in the code you didn't paste here
	{
		#newly added record
		++num_add
		print "Added key: ", newrec_key > LogFile   #output the 2nd field to "LogFile"

		#print out the newly added record
		print new_line > OutputFile          #copy the whole line to "OutputFile"

	}