How can I get multiple info from different files

efernandes · #1 (**permalink**) 02-07-2007

HI,

Supose I have these 2 files:

file1.txt
Name: John
Age:28
DateOfBirth:21/12/2004

file2.txt
Name: Thomas
Age:30
DateOfBirth:11/1/2003

I need to retrieve into a single file the "Name" and "DateOfBirth" from the 2 files, so the result looks like this:

file3.txt
John:21/12/2004
Thomas:11/1/2003

Regards
Elio

radoulov · #2 (**permalink**) 02-07-2007

With bash/ksh93:

Code:

while read;do 
	case "$REPLY" in 
		Name*)printf "${REPLY#*: }:";; 
		Date*)printf "${REPLY#*:}\n";;
	esac
done< <(cat file1 file2)>file3

radoulov · #3 (**permalink**) 02-07-2007

With awk:

GNU Awk

Code:

awk '{print $3,$7}' RS= FS="[ :\n]" OFS=":" file1 file2

reborg · #4 (**permalink**) 02-07-2007

And just for completness with sed:

Code:

sed -n 's/^[ND][^:]*:[ ]*\([^ ].*\)/\1/p' file1.txt file2.txt > file3.txt

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