shell - Directing output file name in a variable in awk

Question

tmf@liphy$ cat data
5
3

tmf@liphy$ gawk -v "fileA"="testA" '$1<5{print $1 > "fileA"}' data

I want the output to go to testA. It goes to fileA instead. I tried various combinations of inverted commas. Nothing worked.

Answer 1

Could you please try following. You are using double quotes "fileA" which makes it string and will be considered as output file name as fileA(NOT as a variable fileA) where output should be written, rather than use variable name named fileA like > (fileA).

gawk -v "fileA"="testA" '$1<5{print $1 > (fileA)}' data