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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting File merging using first column as the ref Post 302595757 by binlib on Saturday 4th of February 2012 08:48:07 PM
Old 02-04-2012
So your file 1.txt is sorted and big, but 2.txt if not sorted and may be big:
Code:
join 1.txt <(sort 2.txt)

Use temp file (or named pipe) to hold sorted 2.txt file if your system doesn't support process substitution. Or
Code:
sort 2.txt |join 1.txt -

Last edited by binlib; 02-04-2012 at 10:02 PM..
 

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