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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Failure using regex with awk in 'while read file' loop Post 302940580 by pathunkathunk on Tuesday 7th of April 2015 10:35:02 AM
Old 04-07-2015
I know that I could pipe the output file and get my desired output. But I would like to accomplish it all at once if possible--find matching lines in file1.txt based on the labels in labels.txt, and print a random subset of two of these matching lines to an output file named according to the label.
 

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SHUF(1) 							   User Commands							   SHUF(1)

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shuf - generate random permutations SYNOPSIS
shuf [OPTION]... [FILE] shuf -e [OPTION]... [ARG]... shuf -i LO-HI [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION
Write a random permutation of the input lines to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -e, --echo treat each ARG as an input line -i, --input-range=LO-HI treat each number LO through HI as an input line -n, --head-count=COUNT output at most COUNT lines -o, --output=FILE write result to FILE instead of standard output --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE -r, --repeat output lines can be repeated -z, --zero-terminated line delimiter is NUL, not newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
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