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Old 11-12-2012
[Solved] Deleting all rows where the first column equals the second column
Hi,

I have a tab delimited text file where the first two columns equal numbers. I want to delete all rows where the value in the first column equals the second column. How do I go about doing that? Thanks!

Input:
Code:
1 1 ABC DEF
2 2 IJK LMN
1 2 ZYX OPW

Output:
Code:
1 2 ZYX OPW

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Old 11-12-2012
Code:
awk ' { if($1 != $2) print; } ' infile

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Originally Posted by bipinajith
Code:
awk ' { if($1 != $2) print; } ' infile

And that's the really long version Smilie

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Alister
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