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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Comparing two files in UNIX and create a new file similar to equi join Post 302925731 by satece on Wednesday 19th of November 2014 04:25:24 AM
Old 11-19-2014
Hi Scrutinizer,
Code:
awk -F, 'NR==FNR{A[$1]=$3; next} $1 in A{$1=A[$1]; print}' FS=, OFS=, file2 file1

is working perfectly. Can you please explain the command and its working?

Thanks,
satece
Last edited by Franklin52; 11-19-2014 at 12:16 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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