Hi, I have an input file (input.txt): ====== # The four columns represent Name, Country, Age and # City respectively.

John China 28 Beijing Matt USA 40 San-Francisco Cathy Englan 50 London .. .. ..

====== I have a Master template file (Master.txt): ----- $Name is from $Country. $Name is $Age years old, and comes from $City. ======

For each row (person) in the input file, I would like a new output to be produced with the filename $Name.txt, which is based on the Master.txt template.

Can someone show how this is easily done. (I was told that gawk/awk (or sed) could do it easily, but I am not very familiar with them yet, and I did not find a similar example in the User Guide for GAWK.) Thanks.

BTW, The input file looks a little distorted when this is posted here. It should be:

(On Row 1) John China 28 Beijing

(On Row 2) Matt USA 40 San-Francisco

(On Row 3) Cathy Englan 50 London

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