Is there a way to use the "paste" command to combine files and have each line key off of a column? All this time I've been pasting files together and foolishly not checking the line count of each file. I have just found out that the line count is not the same for each file so the data is not being synchronised properly across the two files. I'd like to avoid using a for loop to grep one line of each file, and the key in that file, against each line of the correlating file as the files are large and would increase the overhead. Anyway I can tell paste to match lines that have a correlating key column?
Both files would key off of the user's UNIX login name (user1, user2, user3, etc). Although I could sort the files and uniq them they're still not the same line count hence I need to make sure the paste matches the user login when I join them. GNU Linux using ksh (forgot to post that too).
Thanks - this appears to be what I need however I'm not receiving the desired output. I've read the man page and googled a bit but all examples I see are with two files that either have 2 fileds or are whitespace-delimited. My files are not in this format. I tried:
Code:
join -t: txt txt1
but this gives a line count of 50 whereas the two files contain 10 lines. I checked the two files and 8 of the entries should match up . Is there a way to specify the first and second field delimited by :?
Forgive me but I was trying to keep the data as clean as possible and I neglected to consider the lines are preceded by the server name so they look like this:
The sorts should be restricted to the join key, but your sorts use the entire line.
The sort should not be numeric (human readable or otherwise). join expects a lexicographical sort in the same collation sequence.
Unless the sort key (the entire line in this case) begins with a valid number, the -h has no effect. The absence of a valid leading number is interpreted as a 0. Since all lines in your data sample compare equal to 0, the tie is broken using a lexicographical sort of the entire line.
The correct sort would be: sort -b -t: -k2,2
I realize that this is for a Linux machine, but -j2 instead of -12 -22? Why? You lose the ability to run that join on any implementation in exchange for saving 4 characters on the command line. A bad bargain, in my opinion.
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