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Old 05-13-2008
Franklin52 Franklin52 is offline
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With awk:

Code:
awk 'NR==FNR{a[substr($0,1,5)];next}
NF<3{next}
substr($1,2,5) in a {print > "file1";next}
{print > "file2"}' file2 file1
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