[GRASSLIST:472] Re: awk?

[Moritz Lennert]

Sjors said:
> Hi,
>
> I want to add new values to a site file form another sitefile. How to do
> this with awk?
> I'm thinking it's got to be somethhing like:
>
> awk F=|, /*? {$3} file1 | cat file2
>
>
> Somebody got an idea?  It's not completely right, but how to specify the
> columns in the second file, actualy create column in second file?
>

I'm not sure I understand completely what you want to do:

file 1

0.000|0.000|#1 %5

file 2

12.3

result

0.000|0.000|#1 %5 %12.3


OR

file 1

0.000|0.000|#1 %5

file 2

1.000|1.000|#2 %12.3

result

0.000|0.000|#1 %5
1.000|1.000|#2 %12.3


If the first, try paste, if the second try cat>>

Moritz