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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to I compare 100s of files? Post 302780541 by Chubler_XL on Thursday 14th of March 2013 04:12:04 PM
Old 03-14-2013
OK assumption is that user files start with "user" (eg user001) and exist somewhere below starting directory. reffile is your reference file.

This script writes *.new files (eg user001.new) with updated info:

Code:
find . -name 'user*' -print | xargs awk '
    FNR==NR {R[$5,$6]=$7; next}
    FNR==1{close(F);C=R[$5,$6];F=FILENAME".new"}
    {print $0 OFS C > F}' reffile

 

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