can someone please help me with a vlookup utility in shell script that does the work similar to Excel.
Ex:
If File1.txt is
and File2.txt is
then the utility should create File3.txt with the below mentioned output:
the separator between columns will be tab(\t).
Also, is it possible, if File1.txt and File2.txt has multiple columns then, the lookup should happen from Column 3 of File1.txt to Column 6 of File2.txt and return Column 9 in File3.txt
Please help
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-04-2013 at 10:05 AM..
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Dear All,
i want to implement vookup function which is there in excel into Unix. Suppose i have 2 files. The files are given below.
File1:
MSC Cell SDCA
Patna-1 12 Bihar
Patna-2 45 Ranchi
Bhopal-1 85 Raigarh
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I am trying to use vlookup (Excel function) using awk but there is some problem :(
--file1--
ABC123
101F
X1 A $P=Z
X2 A $P=X
X3 B $P=F
X4 C $P=G
MNK180
END
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I have an excel sheet Excel1.xls that has some entries.
I have one more excel sheet Excel2.xls that has entries only in those cells which are blank in Excel1.xls
These may be in different workbooks. They are totally independent made by 2 different users.
I have placed them in a... (1 Reply)
Hi folks,
awk 'NR==FNR {m=$0; next} $1 in m{$0=m} {print}' file2 file1
Works a charm for a vlookup type query, sourced from https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/215998-vlookup-using-awk.html
However my column content has white spaces and numbers. Example
file1
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file1
11,12,13
16,14,12
28,21,22
22,23,24 file 3
18,16,16
14,12,12
23,22,24
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unexpand
EXPAND(1) BSD General Commands Manual EXPAND(1)NAME
expand, unexpand -- expand tabs to spaces, and vice versa
SYNOPSIS
expand [-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn] [file ...]
unexpand [-a | -t tab1,tab2,...,tabn] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The expand utility processes the named files or the standard input writing the standard output with tabs changed into blanks. Backspace
characters are preserved into the output and decrement the column count for tab calculations. The expand utility is useful for pre-process-
ing character files (before sorting, looking at specific columns, etc.) that contain tabs.
The unexpand utility puts tabs back into the data from the standard input or the named files and writes the result on the standard output.
The following options are available:
-a (unexpand only.) By default, only leading blanks and tabs are reconverted to maximal strings of tabs. If the -a option is given,
then tabs are inserted whenever they would compress the resultant file by replacing two or more characters.
-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn
Set tab stops at column positions tab1, tab2, ..., tabn. If only a single number is given, tab stops are set that number of column
positions apart instead of the default number of 8.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of expand and unexpand as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The expand and unexpand utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
STANDARDS
The expand and unexpand utilities conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
The expand command appeared in 3.0BSD.
BSD October 13, 2006 BSD