Shell Programming and Scripting

awk -v n="POINT" '/%/{print $0 "\n" n ;next}1' < file name

# Before the program is run, set the variable n to the value "POINT"
-v n="POINT"

# For every line containing % somewhere:
'/%/ {
        # Print the entire line, followed by a newline, followed by "POINT"
        print $0 "\n" n
        # Skip this line so the '1' below doesn't print it
        next
# The '1' after the code block tells it to print every single line.
# It could be an expression too.
} 1' < file name

awk -v n="POINT" '/%/ { $0=$0"\n" n } 1'

awk -v n="$dynamicval" 'BEGIN{i=0;}/^%$/{i++}$0 !~ /^%$/{if(i == 3 ){gsub(n,"POINT")print $0;}' < file name

$ nawk -v n="LOCAL" 'gsub(n,"POINT",$0)1' input.txt 
%
10
%
NAME_1
NAME_2
NAME_3
NAME_4
%
POINT
%
02/02/12
%
08:00:00
%
YES
%