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Old 08-29-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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start with this:

Code:
awk ' FILENAME=="fileb" {arr[$1]+=$2}
        FILENAME=="filea" {arr{$1]+=$2}
        END{for (i in arr {print i, arr[i] } ' filea fileb > filec

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