Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi.

I'm having trouble using gawk within a bash script and I can't figure out why.
I have a command that takes in a data file with two columns, the first one numbers and the second words. My code takes each line, and prints the word its corresponding number of times. The code works from the command line, but fails once its put in a bash script. Its something to do with referencing $1 and $2 I believe. Any help would be most appreciated.

#! /bin/bash

cat freq.txt | while read line; do for ((i = 0; i < $(echo $line | gawk
{print $1}); i++)); do echo $line | gawk '{print $2}'; done; done

Could you post a sample of your input and an example of the desired output?

Is this what you want?

Code:

awk '{for(i=1;i<=$1;i++)print $2}' freq.txt

Regards