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No the dummy numbers will be from individuals files. For example my awk command will be run on three different files. Each file will correlate to each column. thank you Lenny

The numbers form the other files are just one single value or are they a column in the file?

Sorry I suck at explaining:

The second column I use the awk command to filter through a large file i have and pull out 101 numbers that are two delimitters after the word "Done" .

The third and fourth I use the same awk command but it does only pull out one value per file. That value I need to repeat 101 times. For column 3 and 4. Column three will get one value from "file2" and column 4 will get one value from "file3". Hope that helps. Lenny

Try this - you still need to edit filenames

Code:

awk '/Done/ {print $2; exit}'  file3 | read col3
awk '/Done/ {print $2; exit}'  file4 | read col4

printf "%s\n%s\n%s\n%s\n" "comment" "x y x"  "101"  "4 7" > newfile

awk '/Done/ {print $2}'  file | \
 awk -v col4="$col4" -v col3="$col3" ' BEGIN { cnt =1.5 }
         {printf("%.1f  %s  %s %s\n", cnt,  $0, col3, col4); cnt+=.1 } >> newfile

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I get this message:

../bin/Lenny: line 7: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
../bin/Lenny: line 9: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Code:

cnt+=.1 } '  >> newfile    # <---  last line of code

Typo. My bad.