file1 contain: (this just a small sample of data it may have thousand of lines)

1 aaa 1/01/1975 delhi
2 bbb 2/03/1977 mumbai
3 ccc 1/01/1975 mumbai
4 ddd 2/03/1977 chennai
5 aaa 1/01/1975 kolkatta
6 bbb 2/03/1977 bangalore

program:

nawk '{
idx= $2 SUBSEP $3
arr[idx] = (idx in arr) ? arr[idx] ORS $0 : $0
arrCnt[idx]++
}
END {
for (i in arr)
if (arrCnt[i] > 1) print arr[i]
}' file1

Result:

2 bbb 2/03/1977 mumbai
6 bbb 2/03/1977 bangalore
1 aaa 1/01/1975 delhi
5 aaa 1/01/1975 kolkatta

Questions:

How the code should be if I need the data result to be like this :


1 aaa 1/01/1975 delhi
3 ccc 1/01/1975 mumbai
2 bbb 2/03/1977 mumbai
4 ddd 2/03/1977 chennai

Please help! Thank you friends!

It is good that you have supplied 'in' file format and wanted/desired 'out' format but it will help if you can tell us what the actual need is.

What is the algorithm/method you want to apply to the input to generate the output - it is not too clear from your examples. I am guessing you want to get entries from aaa until aaa is repeated. Is this the case?

The requests are:

the program will go line #1; it will compare this line #1 to every line in the file; and if column #2 is not match AND column #3 is match to the next lines, then print all the lines those meet the condition. The program will go to line #2 and repeat the process til the end of the file.

I am not sure this is clear enough. Please let me know.