How to use a variable in an awk expression

Question

I\'m trying to make this command:

sed bla bla filename | awk \'{printf \"%s %s_entry_%.3f %.3f %.3f %.3f\",$1,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7}\'

But the thi

Answer 1

Easiest to use actual awk variables:

sed bla bla filename | awk -v values="$values" '{printf "%s %s_entry_"values,$1,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7}'

Or with bash:

awk -v values="$values" '{printf "%s %s_entry_"values,$1,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7}' <(sed bla bla filename)