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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting compare 2 files based on columns Post 302489622 by novice_man on Friday 21st of January 2011 02:41:16 AM
Old 01-21-2011
Hi Scrutinizer,

The script still prints common lines only, Can you please comment.


Code:
$ cat f1
a b 1
c d 2
e f 3

$ cat f2
e f 3
a b 1
g h 1

Code:
$ source awk.csh
a b 1 a b 1
e f 3  e f 3

PHP Code:
Desired Output 
c d 2
g h 1 
Thanks.
 

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