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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK: Substring search Post 302548887 by polsum on Friday 19th of August 2011 03:01:22 PM
Old 08-19-2011
@alister - thanks for the detailed reply. Actually it was a typo from my side in the first post - "acg" should count twice. My original file has only alphabets in both columns and no other characters or metacharacters. So, the codes seem to be work fine.

Yes the string of 2nd column should be searched in all the rows of 1st column.

By 30000 lines I meant the maximum number of lines in any column. Yes the 2nd column has far fewer rows/lines than the first.
 

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COLRM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  COLRM(1)

NAME
colrm -- remove columns from a file SYNOPSIS
colrm [start [stop]] DESCRIPTION
The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file. A column is defined as a single character in a line. Input is read from the standard input. Output is written to the standard output. If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written. If both start and stop columns are spec- ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written. Column numbering starts with one, not zero. Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight. Backspace characters decrement the column count by one. ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7). EXIT STATUS
The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1) HISTORY
The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD. BSD
August 4, 2004 BSD
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