Lookup and Replace with two files in awk

Question

I am trying to correct one file with another with a single line of AWK code. I am trying to take $1 from FILE2, look it up in FILE1, get the corresponding $3 and $4. After I set them as variables I want the program to stop evaluating FILE1, change $10 and $11 from FILE2 to the values of the variables, and print this out.

I am having trouble getting the awk to switch from FILE1 to FILE2 after I have extracted the variables. I've tried nextfile, but this resets the program and it tires to extract variables from FILE2, I set NR to the last Record, but it did not switch.

I am also doing a loop to get each line out of FILE1, but if that can be part of the script I am sure it would speed things up not having to reopen awk over and over again.

here is the parts I have figured out.

for file in `cut -f 1 FILE2`; do
awk -v a=$file '$1=a{s=$2;q=$4; ---GO TO FILE1---}{if ($1==a) {$10=s; $11=q; print 0;exit}' FILE1 FILE2 >> FILEOUT
done

a quick example set NOTE: Despite how I have this written, the two files are not in the same order and on the order of 8GB in size, so a little unwieldy to sort.

FILE1

A 12345 + AJD$JD
B 12504 + DKFJ#%
C 52042 + DSJTJE

FILE2

A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 345 D$J 
B 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 250 KFJ
C 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 204 SJT

OUTFILE

A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12345 AJD$JD 
B 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12504 DKFJ#%
C 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 52042 DSJTJE

This is the code I got to work based on Kent's answer below.

awk 'NR==FNR{a[$1]=$2" "$4;next}$1 in a{$9=$9" "a[$1]}{$10="";$11=""}2' f1 f2 

Answer 1

try this one-liner:

kent$  awk 'NR==FNR{a[$1]=$2" "$4;next}$1 in a{NF-=2;$0=$0" "a[$1]}7' f1 f2
A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12345 AJD$JD
B 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12504 DKFJ#%
C 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 52042 DSJTJE

Answer 2

No need to loop over the files repeatedly - just read one file and store the relevant fields in arrays keyed on $1, then go through the other file and use those arrays to look up the values you want to insert.

awk '(FILENAME=="FILE1"){y[$1]=$2;z[$1]=$4}; (FILENAME=="FILE2" && $1 in y){$10=y[$1];$11=z[$1];print $0}' FILE1 FILE2

That said, it sounds like you might have a use for the join command here rather than messing about with awk (the above script assumes all your $1/$2/$4 values will fit in memory).