OLD value for awk variables

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I want to print old and new values of some field in Awk script. This is wat I done!

Sample file is as follows

But the output I god is bit different

What must be the problem here?
I am using bash.

2

Try this one

#!/usr/bin/awk

{
old = new
new = $1
print "Old value is " old " New value is " new
}

Not sure about your requirment!!!

Chears
User_prady

3

new is not a shell variable