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Hello board members.. here i am and here is my question.
OS HP-UX
awk
i have a file where the FS is the pipe (|).
So i choose the second field and i would like to do the following:
If this filed is 0 then, i need the line in file1.txt
Else write the line in file2.txt

Code:

cat testfile.txt | awk 'BEGIN{FS="|"}{
mark=$2;
if (mark == 0){
 print;
}
}'>>file1.txt

I tried "print >>file1.txt;" but i get a syntax error...
I would like (if possible) to create the two files, with one if-else statement.
Any ideas?

Thnx

---------- Post updated at 01:50 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:19 PM ----------

Sorry i just realised that i had to put the filename into "" .. So after this my question is resolved.

Have a nice day

That's a useless use of cat, incidentally. awk is fully capable of reading a file all by itself.

Hi corona688,

thanks a lot for the advice and the link. I will change it you are right!