print block of text to file from awk script [banner like]

Question

I have awk script doing some processing and sending it\'s output to a file. How would I writeout in BEGIN block of my awk program a banner-like mes

Answer 1

Is this some that you look for?

var="Peter Hanson"

awk -v auth="$var" '
BEGIN {print "#########################################"
    print "#      generated by some author         #"
    printf "#";
    l=int((41-length(auth))/2)
    r=((41-length(auth))/2-l)*2
        for (i=1;i<=l;i++) 
        printf " "
    printf "%s",auth
    for (i=1;i<=l+r-2;i++) 
        printf " "
    print "#"
    print "#########################################"
    }' file
#########################################
#      generated by some author         #
#              Peter Hanson             #
#########################################

This will take the data in the variable var and print it as the second line.
It does adjust the field with, so it its centered.
You need to enter your code for the rest after the last print