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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using awk to substitute columns from one file into another Post 302313128 by kylle345 on Monday 4th of May 2009 11:07:18 PM
Old 05-05-2009
Using awk to substitute columns from one file into another

Hi,

I am new to this forum and my script skills are very weak.

I have this file (file 1) that contains 3 columns (tab delimited):

kyle start stop
john start stop
joe start stop

And I want to replace name (column 1) from another file. This other file has two columns, one is the match (column 1) and the other column is what I want to substitute into file 1.

kyle bob
john jack
joe arnold

So the output file would look like this:

bob start stop
jack start stop
arnold start stop


Could some give me a solution and a simple explanation. Any help would be fine Smilie I tried finding a similar thread but it looks like my case is unique.

Thanks
 

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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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