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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search, replace string in file1 with string from (lookup table) file2? Post 302323399 by aenagy on Sunday 7th of June 2009 01:41:54 PM
Old 06-07-2009
Quote:
Code:
 
awk 'FNR==NR{a[tolower($1)]=$2;next} tolower($1) in a{print "1 " a[tolower($1)] " tf " toupper($2)}' "File_2" "File_1"


I am trying to modify the code above for a similar situation. I have two input files. The first file (Datastores) is a CSV with friendly names in the first column and UUIDs in the second column. The second file (VMs) is a list of files with the full path using the UUID. For example:

----- datastores.csv -----
friendly name 1, UUID1
friendly name 2, UUID2
friendly name 3, UUID3
etc
----- datastores.csv -----

----- VMs.txt -----
/folder/UUID3/vm1.vmx
/folder/UUID2/vm2.vmx
/folder/UUID1/vm3.vmx
/folder/UUID3/vm4.vmx
etc
----- VMs.txt -----

What I am looking for is output that looks like this:

----- output.txt -----
/folder/friendly name 3/vm1.vmx
/folder/friendly name 2/vm2.vmx
/folder/friendly name 1/vm3.vmx
/folder/friendly name 3/vm4.vmx
etc
----- output.txt -----

The sample awk is not intuitive for me even after reading the other explanation and going over the O'Rielly pocket reference. The case of either input does not need to be changed -- if there is a problem with case matching then I have other issues to deal with.

Thanks for your help in advance.
 

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rmf(1)							      General Commands Manual							    rmf(1)

NAME
rmf - remove folder (only available within the message handling system, mh) SYNOPSIS
rmf [+folder] [-help] [-[no]interactive] OPTIONS
Prints a list of the valid options to this command. Asks for confirmation before deleting a folder. By default, rmf deletes a folder and its messages without asking for confirmation. If you specify the -interactive option, rmf asks if you are sure before deleting the folder. You are advised to use this option, since when rmf deletes a folder its contents are lost irretrievably. DESCRIPTION
The rmf command removes all of the messages within the current folder, and then removes the folder itself. If there are any files within the folder which are not part of MH, they are not removed, and an error message is displayed. You can specify a folder other than the current folder by using the +folder argument. If you do not specify a folder, and rmf cannot find the current folder,rmf asks you whether you want to delete +inbox instead. If the current folder is removed, it makes +inbox current. Note that the rmf command irreversibly deletes messages that do not have other links, so use it with caution. If the folder being removed is a sub-folder, the parent folder becomes the new current folder, and rmf tells you that this has happened. This provides an easy mechanism for selecting a set of messages, operating on the list, then removing the list and returning to the current folder from which the list was extracted. Using rmf to delete a read-only folder deletes the private sequence and current message information from the file, without affecting the folder itself. If you have sub-folders within a folder, you must delete all the sub-folders before you can delete the folder itself. PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To determine the user's Mail directory EXAMPLES
This example shows how rmf asks for confirmation when the -interactive option is used: % rmf -interactive +test Remove folder "test"? y FILES
The user profile. SEE ALSO
rmm(1) rmf(1)
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