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11-09-2009

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I see where I went wrong.. my examples were not accurate. My apologies.

in file2 (ref.txt) the values look more like this:

File2:
DD 3213
CCA 1231
AA BC 1112
ADFDFF 1232
DDF SCC 2131

I ran this:

awk 'FILENAME=="ref.txt"{A[$2]=$1}
FILENAME=="master.txt"{if(A[$1]){print A[$1]}else{print $0}}' ref.txt master.txt > output.txt

Any string in file 2 that had spaces (AA BC, DDF SCC) did not work for obvious reasons. I've regenerated file 2 to look like this now with sed:

DD:3213
CCA:1231
AA BC:1112
ADFDFF:1232
DDF SCC:2131

Is there any way I can use the awk script you gave me to recognize the columns separated by the colon? I can change the colon to any other value as well if there is something that will work better with awk.

Thanks for the help and patience.

---------- Post updated at 01:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:18 AM ----------

I tried this but no lucK:

awk 'FILENAME=="ref.txt"{FS = : ; A[$2]=$1}
FILENAME=="master.txt"{if(A[$1]){print A[$1]}else{print $0}}' ref.txt master.txt > results.txt

awk: FILENAME=="ref.txt"{FS = : ; A[$2]=$1}
awk: ^ syntax error

---------- Post updated at 01:53 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:39 AM ----------

Thank you for the help vidyadhar85.

I was able to get it to work with this:

Code:

awk '
BEGIN{FS=":"}
FILENAME=="ref.txt"{A[$2]=$1}
FILENAME=="master.txt"{if(A[$1]){print A[$1]}else{print $0}}' ref.txt master.txt > results.txt

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       pescetti

DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

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		 A  list of criteria to apply to each generated hand to generate specific hand types.  The list should be space separated and each
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