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Old 05-26-2009
Franklin52 Franklin52 is offline Forum Staff  
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He means something like:

Code:
awk -F, 'NR==FNR && /^D/ {a[$2]++;next}
$9 in a || $10 in a {print "D," $1}' file1 file2