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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK: Pattern match between 2 files, then compare a field in file1 as > or < field in file2 Post 302562367 by vgersh99 on Thursday 6th of October 2011 03:58:24 PM
Old 10-06-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by birei
Hi right_coaster,

Try:

Code:
$ cat file1
PRODCON1|SYSTEM.IOA|040720101327|USER1|201004071327
PRODCON2|SYSTEM.TEST|040720101327|USER1|201110010932
SA|SYSTEM.CCR|040720101327|USER1|201004071327
US|SYSTEM.PPD|040720101327|USER1|201004071327
VP|SYSTEM.IOA|040720101327|USER1|201110012346
$ cat file2
PRODCON1|SYSTEM.IOA|201109201128
PRODCON2|SYSTEM.TEST|201109201128
SA|SYSTEM|201109201128
US|SYSTEM|201109201128
VP|SYSTEM.IOA|201109201128
$ awk -F\| 'NR == FNR {i[$1, $2] = $3; next} { if ( i[$1, $2] && i[$1, $2] < $5 ) { printf( "%s|%s|%s\n", $1, $2, $4 ) } }' file2 file1
PRODCON2|SYSTEM.TEST|USER1
VP|SYSTEM.IOA|USER1

Regards,
Birei
a slight mod:
Code:
awk -F\| 'NR == FNR {i[$1, $2] = $3; next} i[$1, $2] && i[$1, $2] < $5 { print $1, $2, $4 }' OFS='|' file2 file1

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