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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove or rename based on contents of file Post 302943653 by cmccabe on Monday 11th of May 2015 01:20:55 PM
Old 05-11-2015
I hope this is more clear:
I am trying to use the two files shown below to either remove or rename contents in one of those files. If in combine.txt $5 matches $5 of output.txt and the value in $1 of combine.txt is not "No Match" then that value is substituted for all values in $5 and $1 of output.txt. If however in $1 of combine.txt the value is "No Match", then the row in output.txt with that $5 value in it and the one below it are removed. Thank you Smilie.

For example,
"DTE3504500000004" is the value of $5 in combine.txt and that matches row 3 of output.txt $5 , since the value in $1 of combine.txt is "No Match", rows 9 and 10 are removed from output.txt.

"DTE3504500000005" is the value of $5 in combine.txt and that matches row 11 of output.txt $5 , since the value in $1 of combine.txt is not "No Match", rather "PXL-A0000005" that new value is used to replace all occurrences of the old value in output.txt.

Code:
file1.txt
No Match    chr1    35696    36106    DTE3504500000004
PXL-A0000005    chr1    69066    69311    DTE3504500000005

Code:
Initial output.txt:
RefPrimer    ref    antiref    omosome    PrimerSet    SeqRxn
AntirefPrimer    antiref    ref    omosome        
DTE3504500000001ref    34529    35031    1    DTE3504500000001    SeqRxn4
DTE3504500000001antiref    35031    34529    1        
DTE3504500000002ref    35032    35283    1    DTE3504500000002    SeqRxn4
DTE3504500000002antiref    35283    35032    1        
DTE3504500000003ref    35284    35506    1    DTE3504500000003    SeqRxn4
DTE3504500000003antiref    35506    35284    1        
DTE3504500000004ref    35696    36106    1    DTE3504500000004    SeqRxn4
DTE3504500000004antiref    36106    35696    1        
DTE3504500000005ref    69066    69311    1    DTE3504500000005    SeqRxn4
DTE3504500000005antiref    69311    69066    1

Code:
Desired output.txt:
RefPrimer    ref    antiref    omosome    PrimerSet    SeqRxn
AntirefPrimer    antiref    ref    omosome        
DTE3504500000001ref    34529    35031    1    DTE3504500000001    SeqRxn4
DTE3504500000001antiref    35031    34529    1        
DTE3504500000002ref    35032    35283    1    DTE3504500000002    SeqRxn4
DTE3504500000002antiref    35283    35032    1        
DTE3504500000003ref    35284    35506    1    DTE3504500000003    SeqRxn4
DTE3504500000003antiref    35506    35284    1        
PXL-A0000005ref    69066    69311    1    PXL-A0000005    SeqRxn4
PXL-A0000005antiref    69311    69066    1


Last edited by cmccabe; 05-11-2015 at 03:09 PM..
 

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XZDIFF(1)							     XZ Utils								 XZDIFF(1)

NAME
xzcmp, xzdiff, lzcmp, lzdiff - compare compressed files SYNOPSIS
xzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2] xzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2] lzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2] lzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2] DESCRIPTION
xzcmp and xdiff invoke cmp(1) or diff(1) on files compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), or bzip2(1). All options specified are passed directly to cmp or diff. If only one file is specified, then the files compared are file1 (which must have a suffix of a supported com- pression format) and file1 from which the compression format suffix has been stripped. If two files are specified, then they are uncom- pressed if necessary and fed to cmp(1) or diff(1). The exit status from cmp or diff is preserved. The names lzcmp and lzdiff are provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils. SEE ALSO
cmp(1), diff(1), xz(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), zdiff(1) BUGS
Messages from the cmp(1) or diff(1) programs refer to temporary filenames instead of those specified. Tukaani 2009-07-05 XZDIFF(1)
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