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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk column compare Post 302266185 by tiggyboo on Tuesday 9th of December 2008 04:52:29 PM
Old 12-09-2008
awk column compare

I've been banging my head against the wall to accomplish the following. Given two files:

File a.txt

12345 hello
32324 there

File b.txt

12345 stuff
45454 howdy
32324 joe

If column 1 matches between the two files, then print only the entire line of the 2nd file (b.txt in this exampleSmilie So the desired output in this case would be:

12345 stuff
32324 joe

I've been working with the follow as a basic start, but seem to have come up with every combination except that which I'm looking for:

awk 'NR==FNR{++a[$1];next}!a[$1]' a.txt, b.txt > c.txt

As you probably guessed this is based on an 'almost' solution google search - in the meantime I've purchased the O'Reilly book and am plowing through it - but in the meantime I really need to get this done... so, anyone kind enough to share a (hopefully somewhat commented) snippet would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Al
 

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COLRM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  COLRM(1)

NAME
colrm -- remove columns from a file SYNOPSIS
colrm [start [stop]] DESCRIPTION
The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file. A column is defined as a single character in a line. Input is read from the standard input. Output is written to the standard output. If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written. If both start and stop columns are spec- ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written. Column numbering starts with one, not zero. Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight. Backspace characters decrement the column count by one. ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7). EXIT STATUS
The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1) HISTORY
The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD. BSD
August 4, 2004 BSD
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