@kieranfoley. There seem to be some contradictions between your input and output files and your description. Although the solutions given apparently "work perfectly", could you please clarify what you mean, so this thread becomes more comprehensible?
Is the input file TAB-separated or space-separated?
The second input file seems to contain 5 columns, not 4
The order of the fields seems to be fields 1,2,3,4 from file1, field 5 from file 2 and the rest from file 1 again?
--edit--
If point 2 and 3 are so, then this would also produce that output:
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-14-2014 at 04:39 PM..
I am using solaris, need either awk/shell or perl script to compate two files.
both of these file1 and file2 are located in two diffent location path in the same server.
file1 location: /export/db/mna
file2: /etc/dba
The script will compare in file1 first field (e.g. abc00asp)before colon:... (8 Replies)
Here is my situation. I need to compare two tab separated files (diff is not useful since there could be known difference between files).
I have found similar posts , but not fully matching.I was thinking of writing a shell script using cut and grep and while loop but after going thru posts it... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Can anyone help me to compare two files and get the matching data... say i have file1 and file2 ... file1 has 300 unique data with that i need to match with file2 to see how may are matching.. file2 have 1000 records. (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing a comparator script, which comapre two txt files(column by column)
below are the precondition of this comparator
1)columns of file are not seperated
Ex.
file1.txt
8888812341181892
1243548895685687
8945896789897789
1111111111111111
file2.txt
9578956789567897... (2 Replies)
Dear All,
I would appreciate any help..At the moment, my work is stuck cos of my inability to resolve this issue.
Which is following:
I have two files with the arrngment like this
file-1
190645 12 3596022
190645 12 3764915
190645 16 3803981
190645 12 3854102
190645 12 4324593
190645... (12 Replies)
Dear All,
I would like to compare two files and return the number of matches found.
Example
File A
Lx2
L1_Mus1
L1Md_T
Lx5
L1M2
L1_Mus3
Lx3_Mus
Lx9
Lx2A
L1Md_A
L1Md_F2
File B
L1_Mus3
L1_Mus3 (3 Replies)
Hi,
I hope somebody can help me with this problem, since I would like to solve this problem using awk, but im not experienced enough with this.
I have two files which i want to match, and output the matching column name and row number.
One file contains 4 columns like this:
FILE1:
a ... (6 Replies)
Example:
I have files in below format
file 1:
zxc,133,joe@example.com
cst,222,xyz@example1.com
File 2 Contains:
hxd
hcd
jws
zxc
cst
File 1 has 50000 lines and file 2 has around 30000 lines :
Expected Output has to be :
hxd
hcd
jws (5 Replies)
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join
JOIN(1) BSD General Commands Manual JOIN(1)NAME
join -- relational database operator
SYNOPSIS
join [-a file_number | -v file_number] [-e string] [-o list] [-t char] [-1 field] [-2 field] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
The join utility performs an ``equality join'' on the specified files and writes the result to the standard output. The ``join field'' is
the field in each file by which the files are compared. The first field in each line is used by default. There is one line in the output
for each pair of lines in file1 and file2 which have identical join fields. Each output line consists of the join field, the remaining
fields from file1 and then the remaining fields from file2.
The default field separators are tab and space characters. In this case, multiple tabs and spaces count as a single field separator, and
leading tabs and spaces are ignored. The default output field separator is a single space character.
Many of the options use file and field numbers. Both file numbers and field numbers are 1 based, i.e. the first file on the command line is
file number 1 and the first field is field number 1. The following options are available:
-a file_number
In addition to the default output, produce a line for each unpairable line in file file_number.
-e string
Replace empty output fields with string.
-o list
The -o option specifies the fields that will be output from each file for each line with matching join fields. Each element of list
has the either the form 'file_number.field', where file_number is a file number and field is a field number, or the form '0' (zero),
representing the join field. The elements of list must be either comma (``,'') or whitespace separated. (The latter requires quot-
ing to protect it from the shell, or, a simpler approach is to use multiple -o options.)
-t char
Use character char as a field delimiter for both input and output. Every occurrence of char in a line is significant.
-v file_number
Do not display the default output, but display a line for each unpairable line in file file_number. The options -v 1 and -v 2 may be
specified at the same time.
-1 field
Join on the field'th field of file 1.
-2 field
Join on the field'th field of file 2.
When the default field delimiter characters are used, the files to be joined should be ordered in the collating sequence of sort(1), using
the -b option, on the fields on which they are to be joined, otherwise join may not report all field matches. When the field delimiter char-
acters are specified by the -t option, the collating sequence should be the same as sort(1) without the -b option.
If one of the arguments file1 or file2 is ``-'', the standard input is used.
DIAGNOSTICS
The join utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
COMPATIBILITY
For compatibility with historic versions of join, the following options are available:
-a In addition to the default output, produce a line for each unpairable line in both file 1 and file 2.
-j1 field
Join on the field'th field of file 1.
-j2 field
Join on the field'th field of file 2.
-j field
Join on the field'th field of both file 1 and file 2.
-o list ...
Historical implementations of join permitted multiple arguments to the -o option. These arguments were of the form
'file_number.field_number' as described for the current -o option. This has obvious difficulties in the presence of files named
'1.2'.
These options are available only so historic shellscripts don't require modification and should not be used.
STANDARDS
The join command conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
SEE ALSO awk(1), comm(1), paste(1), sort(1), uniq(1)BSD April 18, 2002 BSD