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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Join 2 files with multiple columns: awk/grep/join? Post 302376579 by Scrutinizer on Tuesday 1st of December 2009 07:20:56 PM
Old 12-01-2009
I think you'll probably have to use something like awk since you also reorder 5 column to column 1. E.g.:
Code:
awk '{i=$5;$5=x} NR==FNR{A[i]=$0;next} A[i]{print i,A[i]$0}' fileA fileB


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-01-2009 at 09:06 PM..
 

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DB2_FIELD_NAME(3)							 1							 DB2_FIELD_NAME(3)

db2_field_name - Returns the name of the column in the result set

SYNOPSIS
string db2_field_name (resource $stmt, mixed $column) DESCRIPTION
Returns the name of the specified column in the result set. PARAMETERS
o $stmt - Specifies a statement resource containing a result set. o $column - Specifies the column in the result set. This can either be an integer representing the 0-indexed position of the column, or a string containing the name of the column. RETURN VALUES
Returns a string containing the name of the specified column. If the specified column does not exist in the result set, db2_field_name(3) returns FALSE. SEE ALSO
db2_field_display_size(3), db2_field_num(3), db2_field_precision(3), db2_field_scale(3), db2_field_type(3), db2_field_width(3). PHP Documentation Group DB2_FIELD_NAME(3)
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