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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - 2 files comparison without for loop - multi-line issue Post 302950502 by Don Cragun on Saturday 25th of July 2015 04:29:06 PM
Old 07-25-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by chill3chee
Code:
awk -F '^'   'NR==FNR { mydate[$1]=$2; next} {($0 in mydate) ? { print mydate[i] } :  {print $0}} < dir/mydate.txt dir/myview.txt > dir/mynewview.txt

Just to update the answer, the above one worked.
I'm very glad that this is working for you, but I don't understand how it is producing any output. Since you are redirecting standard input from one file and are naming the second file as an operand, awk should not be reading anything from standard input. And, since there is only one operand, there is no second input file to be processed to print anything. And, if there was, and you find a line that matched something in your array, the array index (i) is undefined.

You say that dir/mydate.txt uses circumflex as a field separator, but (other than your awk -F option arguments) I don't see any circumflex characters in any of your files.
 

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NAME

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       update-fonts-dir creates a fonts.dir file in an X font directory by invoking mkfontdir(1x) with the appropriate arguments.  It is typically
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SEE ALSO

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