06-20-2008
Joining columns from two files, if the key matches
I am trying to join/paste columns from two files for the rows with matching first field. Any help will be appreciated.
Files can not be sorted and may not have all rows in both files.
Thanks.
File1
aaa 111
bbb 222
ccc 333
File2
aaa sss mmmm
ccc kkkk llll
ddd xxx yyy
Want to generate:
aaa 111 sss mmmm (column 2 from file1 and clolumns from file2)
bbb 222 ????? (missing data, identified)
ccc 333 kkkk llll
ddd ???? xxx yyyy (missing column 1 data marked as missing.)
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COLUMN(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLUMN(1)
NAME
column -- columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by
default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
The options are as follows:
-c Output is formatted for a display columns wide.
-s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.
-t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays.
-x Fill columns before filling rows.
ENVIRONMENT
The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ;
printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" ;
ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSO
colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)
HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.
BSD
July 29, 2004 BSD