awk help

[Ernie Luzar]

>> On April 15, 2017 1:36:01 PM EDT, Ernie Luzar <luzar722 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello list;
>>
>> Can not figure how to process 2 lines as a single line.
>> I have this file.
>>
>> poollist: opts = 0x2
>> Name: test Role: ipf 	References: 2	Hits: 0
>> 	Nodes Starting at 0xc9fd4800
>> 	Address: 1.11.244.65/32
>> 		Hits 0	Bytes 0	Name 	Ref 2
>> 	Address: 1.163.113.139/32
>> 		Hits 0	Bytes 0	Name 	Ref 2
>> 	Address: 1.163.139.214/32
>> 		Hits 0	Bytes 0	Name 	Ref 2
>> 	Address: 1.173.51.202/32
>> 		Hits 0	Bytes 0	Name 	Ref 2
>> 	Address: 1.175.164.129/32
>> 		Hits 0	Bytes 0	Name 	Ref 2
>> 	Address: 99.197.14.34/32
>> 		Hits 0	Bytes 0	Name 	Ref 2
>>
>> The Address line and the Hits line makes a pair.
>>
>> For any pair that hits is greater than zero
>> output file with ip address with ; sufix instead of /32 and
>> hit value in fixed position.
>>
>> I can't figure out how to code awk to process the 2 lines as a pair.
>>
>> All ready searched the online awk references and could not find an 
>> example. Any pointers would sure help.
>>
>> Thanks
 >
> Jim Trigg wrote:
> /^Address/ { address = $2; got_address = 1; }
> /^ Hits/       { if (got_address) {
>                           hits = $2;
>                           if (hits) {
>                             [Do what's needed with address and hits]
>                             got_address = 0;
>                           } else {
>                              [Handle error condition of hits without address]
>                           }
>                       }
> 
> Jim
> 


Thank you Jim.
Used this model as my starting point and accomplished my goal.
When I first tested /^Address/ and /^ Hits/ produced no output.
I changed them to /Address/ and /Hits/ and this produced output.
I could not find any reference to the ^ sign, so I would like to know 
what is it suppose to do?

I am not having success using the system commands rm & touch as shown in 
the following example.

   awk 'BEGIN { "date +%Y%m%d" | getline date
                hits_yes = "/etc/ipf_pool_awk_hits_yes"
                hits_no = "/etc/ipf_pool_awk_hits_no"
                rm hits_yes
                rm hits_no
                "touch hits_yes" "touch hits_no"
              }'   $hits_rpt

I know the date system command is working, but can't figure out how to 
code rm & touch to get them to work. Is this even possible?

Thanks for any pointers.