Or in awk, this seems to produce the desired output with the given sample files:
I don't like too much the {RS=ORS="\n\n";FS="\n"} bloc that executes on every lines of the second file but I don't know how do avoid this. Can't do that variable assignment in the BEGIN bloc as the first file will then not be parsed correctly. Any idea?
Edit
The only thing I could think of is to flag the variable assignment so that when it is done once, skip it on the next line:
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A-1
B-1
C-1
D-2
E-2
F-3
G-3
H-3
I-3
J-4
K-4
L-5
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state city zone
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