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What's the sorting method? My guess is you ignore...
What's the sorting method? My guess is you ignore all letters and consider numbers only?
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Posted By FrancoisCN
Monitoring awk script progress
Is there a way to have awk output its regular output to a file and some other stuff to a log file to monitor progress?

ie: print first field of a file and for every 100000 lines dealt with, print...
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Posted By FrancoisCN
It seems to me the solution you propose would...
It seems to me the solution you propose would only work if there is only 1 space in the first expression but wouldn't if it had multiple (ie "a b cdef"). Anyways, I tried a solution of my own, which...
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Posted By FrancoisCN
can't do tabs on forums but here: file1 ...
can't do tabs on forums but here:

file1
abc def <Tab> X1
ghi jkl <Tab> X2

file2
abc def <Tab> Y1
ghi jkl <Tab> Y2

output
abc def <Tab> X1 <Tab> Y1
ghi jkl <Tab> X2 <Tab> Y2
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Posted By FrancoisCN
join - using *only* tab as a field separator
I have files with tabs separating the fields but those fields values can have whitespace characters (basically a text string). I want to instruct join to not consider white spaces as separators but...
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Posted By FrancoisCN
Sort alpha on 1st field, numerical on 2nd field (sci notation)
I want to sort alphabetically on the first field and sort in descending numerical order on the 2nd field. With a normal "sort -r -n" it does this:

abc ||| 5e-05 ||| bla
abc ||| 3 ||| ble
def |||...
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Posted By FrancoisCN
Find top N values for field X based on field Y's value
I want to find the top N entries for a certain field based on the values of another field.

For example if N=3, we want the 3 best values for each entry:

Entry1 ||| 100
Entry1 ||| 95
Entry1...
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Posted By FrancoisCN
1st file 1 ||| 123/ eb ||| 513 2 ||| k + 12...
1st file
1 ||| 123/ eb ||| 513
2 ||| k + 12 ||| 51
3 ||| | ||| 5
4 ||| a ) ||| 7
5 ||| bla ? ||| 123
6 ||| foobar ||| 543
7 ||| foobar2 ||| 12346

2nd file (text)
bla bla k + 12 bla jkl bla...
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Posted By FrancoisCN
I'm thinking about just changing all special...
I'm thinking about just changing all special characters by adding a "\" before them, and then undo that change when the processing is done. Is that optimal?
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Posted By FrancoisCN
Hey, First of all, thanks a bunch, that...
Hey,

First of all, thanks a bunch, that script is allowing me to get rid of a lot of unnecessary data in my files. I've been using the script from ghostdog74 and it works great for the most part...
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Posted By FrancoisCN
Thanks, it works perfect! I'm just not too sure...
Thanks, it works perfect! I'm just not too sure if I understand how it operates, can you elaborate?
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Posted By FrancoisCN
1st file 1 ||| abc kek ||| 2 1 ||| def foo...
1st file
1 ||| abc kek ||| 2
1 ||| def foo ||| 3
2 ||| ghi bleh blah ||| 4
3 ||| jkl ||| 5

2nd file (text)
bla bla bla jkl bla bla bla
def foo test 123. abc kek

Expected output
1 |||...
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Posted By FrancoisCN
print line if 2nd field exists in text
2 files, first one has 3 fields seperated by ||| and 2nd one is plain text.

I want to copy the lines from the first file if the 2nd field is present anywhere in the text file. This is what I've...
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Posted By FrancoisCN
I have a similar thing I need: I have a...
I have a similar thing I need:

I have a fileA with the following format
word(s) ||| word(s) ||| number
word(s) ||| word(s) ||| number
word(s) ||| word(s) ||| number

and a fileB which is just...
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Posted By FrancoisCN
Woah thanks a bunch for the almost instantaneous...
Woah thanks a bunch for the almost instantaneous response, just tested and it works !
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Posted By FrancoisCN
Copying lines from fileA if they start by a word from fileB
Hi I'm in the need of a script that basically takes two files and generates a 3rd. It reads from fileA and fileB and copies lines from fileA if they start by a word of fileB.

for example

fileA...
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