Thank you also for pointing out how the forum works. I just have some questions about the code though: can you explain the parts? I don't fully understand what each part does, and than if I'd understand I could learn maybe new commands to work my files.
Thanks again.
Sander
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Also I'd like to have the original file2 to be added upon with those columns from file1 that match. If there's no match, I just want the position in file2 to remain blank for those columns. Is that possible too?
Here is my situation. I need to compare two tab separated files (diff is not useful since there could be known difference between files).
I have found similar posts , but not fully matching.I was thinking of writing a shell script using cut and grep and while loop but after going thru posts it... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
Pls help on this.
Input file:
NAME1 BSC1
TEXT ID 1
MAINSFAIL
TEXT ID 2
DGON
TEXT ID 3
lOADONDG
NAME2 BSC2
TEXT ID 1
DGON
TEXT ID 3
lOADONG (1 Reply)
I have a file1 that looks like this:
File 1
a b
b c
c e
d e
and a file 2 that looks like this:
File 2
b
c
e
e
Note that file 2 is the right hand column from file1. I want to remove any lines from file1 that begin with the column in file2. In this case the desired output... (6 Replies)
My item was not answered on previous thread as code given did not work
I wanted to print records from file2 where comparing column 1 and 16 for both files find rows where column 16 in file 1 does not match column 16 in file 2
Here was CODE give to issue
~/unix.com$ cat f1... (0 Replies)
I have a requirement where in i need to select records right below the search criteria
qwertykeyboard white
10 20 30
30 40 50
60 70 80
qwertykeyboard black
40 50 60
70 90 100
qwertykeyboard and white are headers separated by a tab.
when i execute my script..i would be searching... (4 Replies)
file1:
file2:
I need to find matches for any lines in file1 that appear in file2. Desired output is '>' plus the file1 term, followed by the line after the match in file2 (so the title is a little misleading):
This is honestly beyond what I can do without spending the whole night on it, so I'm... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I hope somebody can help me with this problem, since I would like to solve this problem using awk, but im not experienced enough with this.
I have two files which i want to match, and output the matching column name and row number.
One file contains 4 columns like this:
FILE1:
a ... (6 Replies)
At the top of the XYZ file, I need to insert the ABC data value of column 2 only when ABC column 1 matches the prefix XYZ file name (not the ".txt"). Is there an awk solution for this?
ABC Data
0101 0.54
0102 0.48
0103 1.63
XYZ File Name
0101.txt
0102.txt
0103.txt
... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to merge two csv files based on matching criteria:
File description is as below :
Key_File :
000|ÇÞ|Key_HF|ÇÞ|Key_FName
001|ÇÞ|Key_11|ÇÞ|Sort_Key22|ÇÞ|Key_31
002|ÇÞ|Key_12|ÇÞ|Sort_Key23|ÇÞ|Key_32
003|ÇÞ|Key_13|ÇÞ|Sort_Key24|ÇÞ|Key_33
050|ÇÞ|Key_15|ÇÞ|Sort_Key25|ÇÞ|Key_34... (3 Replies)
Hi all
I have two files I need to match record from first file and second file on column 1,8 and and output only match records on file1
File1:
020059801803180116130926800002090000800231000245204003160000000002000461OUNCE000000350000100152500BM01007W0000 ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: arunkumar_mca
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
comm
comm(1) User Commands comm(1)NAME
comm - select or reject lines common to two files
SYNOPSIS
comm [-123] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
The comm utility reads file1 and file2, which must be ordered in the current collating sequence, and produces three text columns as output:
lines only in file1; lines only in file2; and lines in both files.
If the input files were ordered according to the collating sequence of the current locale, the lines written will be in the collating
sequence of the original lines. If not, the results are unspecified.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-1 Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file1.
-2 Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file2.
-3 Suppresses the output column of lines duplicated in file1 and file2.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
file1 A path name of the first file to be compared. If file1 is -, the standard input is used.
file2 A path name of the second file to be compared. If file2 is -, the standard input is used.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of comm when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Printing a list of utilities specified by files
If file1, file2, and file3 each contain a sorted list of utilities, the command
example% comm -23 file1 file2 | comm -23 - file3
prints a list of utilities in file1 not specified by either of the other files. The entry:
example% comm -12 file1 file2 | comm -12 - file3
prints a list of utilities specified by all three files. And the entry:
example% comm -12 file2 file3 | comm -23 -file1
prints a list of utilities specified by both file2 and file3, but not specified in file1.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of comm: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE,
LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 All input files were successfully output as specified.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), sort(1), uniq(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.10 3 Mar 2004 comm(1)
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