Hi ! all

I have need of accessing multiple files of different type same base name, and I want to compare base name if matching then I want to send those 2 files of different type to some program, for further processing

my files are like this

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file_1.txt
file_2.txt
file_3.txt
file_4.txt
file_6.txt
file_8.txt

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file_1.asc
file_2.asc
file_3.asc
file_4.asc
file_7.asc

First I want to save file names in some array like this

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file_type1 array
file_type2 array

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now compare file_type1 array and file_type2 array

first send base name matched files as a variable to sub program say

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variable name txt for .txt file

and

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variable name asc for .asc file

program is something like this

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awk .................'{}' $txt 
awk ..................'{}' $asc

once matched file ends, then send only one variable from unmatched file array, to sub program one by one

expected output

if I do echo $txt $asc should result like below

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file_1.txt file_1.asc
file_2.txt file_2.asc
file_3.txt file_3.asc
file_4.txt file_4.asc
file_6.txt
file_7.asc
file_8.txt

Hope this will be possible with your help