I said GNU awk,
are you using GNU awk?
It's hard to troubleshoot, unless I can see the entire file1 and file2 content.
Could you also post the output from this commands:
Code:
patt="$(printf "id=\"%s\"|" $(<file2))" ; echo "${patt%|}"
Code:
$ awk --version| head -2
GNU Awk 3.1.5
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2005 Free Software Foundation.
$ cat file1
<object
type="user"
id="0000E2801BFD"
encryptedPassword=""
>
<checkListAttributes>
</checkListAttributes>
</object>
<object
type="user"
id="999999999999"
encryptedPassword=""
>
<checkListAttributes>
</checkListAttributes>
</object>
$ cat file2
000039BF228B
0000E2801BFD
$ awk '$0 ~ patt{print $0RS}' RS="</object>" patt="${patt%|}" file1
<object
type="user"
id="0000E2801BFD"
encryptedPassword=""
>
<checkListAttributes>
</checkListAttributes>
</object>
