1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I have a file that lists a few hundred values. Example: abca abcb abcc abcd I have a 2nd file with a few thousand lines. I need to remove every line from the 2nd file that contains any of the values listed in first file. Example of strings to delete: line1 *abca* end of... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a text file with the following content: monday,20 tuesday,10 wednesday,29 monday,10 friday,12 wednesday,14 monday,15 thursday,34 i want the following output: monday,45 tuesday,10 wednesday,43 friday,12 (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file filled with search strings which have a blank in between and look like this: S. g. Ehr. o. Jg. v. d. Chijs g. Ehr. Now i would like to search for the strings and it also shall return the next column after the match. awk -v FILE="search_strings.txt" 'BEGIN {... (10 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file with many lines which contain strings like .. etc. But with no rule regarding field separators or anything else. I want to print ONLY THE STRING from each line , not the entire line !!! For example from the lines : Flow on service executed with success in . Performances... (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Having trouble modifying the below awk to match $1 of sample.txt to $1 of data.txt and if there is a match, then $2 of data.txt is copied to $7 of sample.txt. Thank you :). awk 'NR==FNR{A=$1; next} A {$1=$1 " " A}1' data.txt sample.txt > output.txt Desired Output: Data... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

In file1 field $18 is removed.... column header is "Otherinfo", then each line in file1 is used to search file2 for a match. When a match is found the last four strings in file2 are copied to file1. Maybe: cut -f1-17 file1 and then match each line to file2 file1 Chr Start End ... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm new to scripting and unable to find out a way to perform the below task. Request help in finding out a way to accomplish this. File one consists of some numbers/string which i need to lookup against file 2 and fetch the best match results in output. If best match is not present in... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I have two files and desire to use the strings from $1 of file 1 (file1.txt) as search criteria to find matches in $2 of file 2 (file2.txt). If matches are found I want to output the entire line of file 2 (file2.txt) followed by fields $2-$11 of file 1 (file1.txt). I can find the matches, I cannot... (7 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I cannot seem to get what should be a simple awk one-liner to work correctly and cannot figure out why. I would like to use patterns from a specific field in one file as regex to search for matching strings in the entire line ($0) of another file. I would like to output the lines of File2 which... (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

File2 is tab-delimeted and I am trying to use $2 in file1 (space delimeted) as a search term in file2. If it is found then the AF= in and the FDP= values from file2 are extracted and printed next to the file1 line. I commented the awk before I added the lines in bold the current output resulted. I... (7 Replies)