Programming :: Using Bash Command To Execute Output Of Awk?

I am trying to process a column separated data file, with a few bash command. For example, I have

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file1 aaaa yes
file2 aaaa no
file3 bbbb yes

Let say I want to create new file with the output of first column and do something else with the output of 3rd column. Of course there are many ways to process this data file, but I wish to know by using awk, how could I do it. I'm trying:

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awk '{system("touch $1")}' datafile

but the shell command will not able to get the awk '$1' output. How do I get this done ? And for another question, if the data file contains the variable name of a shell variable, how could I make use of it during a awk output ? For example I have a datafile1:

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server1 yes
server2 no

And in another server declaration data file, I got this datafile2:

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server1=xxx1
server2=yyy1

And in my awk script, I want to achieve something like (the syntax is definitely wrong, just to demonstrate what I assume it will like):

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