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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers finding nearest value in a column Post 302489914 by vgersh99 on Saturday 22nd of January 2011 01:40:25 PM
Old 01-22-2011
something along these lines....

nawk -f pea.awk file1.txt file2.txt

pea.awk:
Code:
function abs (v){
  return (v<0)?-v:v
}

FNR==NR {
   f1[$1]=($1 in f1)?f1[$1] SUBSEP $3:$3
   f1prime[$1,$3]= $2
   next
}
$1 in f1 {
   diff=999999999999999999
   n=split(f1[$1], tA, SUBSEP)
   for(i=1;i<=n;i++){
     d=abs(tA[i]-$3)
     if(d<diff) {
       diff=d
       v3=tA[i]
     }
   }
   print $1, f1prime[$1,v3], v3
}

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SYNOPSIS

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