Grabing values from one file (via awk) and using them in another (via sed) - bash

Question

I am moving using gawk to grab some values but not all values from a file. I have another file that's a template that I will use to replace certain piece then generate a file specific to those values I grab. I would like to use sed to substitute these fields of interest that are in the template.
the dog NAME , likes to ACTION in water when he's bored
another file,f1, would have the name of the dog and the action
Maxs,swim
StoneCold,digs
Thor,leaps
So I can grab these values and store them into an associative array...what I cant do, or see, is how do I get these to my sed script?
so a simple sed script could be like this
s/NAME/ value from f1
s/ACTION/ value from f1
so my out put for the template would be
the dog Maxs , likes to swim in water when he's bored
So if I ran a bash file, the command would look something like this, or what I have attempted
gawk -f f1 animalNameAction | sed -f (is there a way to put something here) template | cat
gawk -f f1 animalNameAction > PulledValues| sed -f PulledValues template | cat
but none of this has worked. So I am left wondering how this could be done.

Answer 1

You can do this, using awk itself,
I assume, template can be of multiline char,
so in FNR==NR{} block, I saved entire file (template) contents in variable t,
and in other block, I replaced NAME and ACTION with first and second fields from comma separated file.
Here is example :
$ cat template
the dog NAME , likes to ACTION in water when he's bored
$ cat file
Maxs,swim
StoneCold,digs
Thor,leaps
$ awk 'FNR==NR{ t = (t ? t RS :"") $0; next}{ s=t; gsub(/NAME/,$1,s); gsub(/ACTION/,$2,s); print s}' template FS=',' file
the dog Maxs , likes to swim in water when he's bored
the dog StoneCold , likes to digs in water when he's bored
the dog Thor , likes to leaps in water when he's bored
Better Readable :
awk 'FNR==NR{
t = (t ? t RS :"") $0;
next
}
{
s=t;
gsub(/NAME/,$1,s);
gsub(/ACTION/,$2,s);
print s
}
' template FS=',' file