Your translation of RudiC's suggestion was close... I think you would have gotten what you had expected if the 2nd line marked in red in your code above had been:
instead of:
The code Aia suggested should work fine as long your data never contains two people with the same name with different IDs. RudiC's code was matching on the ID (e.g., 1111, 2222, and 3333) while Aia's code is matching on the name (e.g., John Smith, Elane Boozler, and Hortense Gable). With the sample data you provided you could have matched on any field except $3, $9, and $10; but I assume that ID ($7) and name ($8) are the only two reasonable choices to consider for your real data.
Note also that the awk statement delete array_name (i.e., delete TMP) is an extension to the standards and will not work on some awk implementations. If you ever need to port this to a system that doesn't accept that statement, the following should work on any standards conforming version of awk:
Hello,
I have file to work with. It has 5 columns. The first three, altogether, constitutes the position. The 4th column contains some values for downstream analysis and the fifth column contains some values that I want to add to 4th column (only if they happen to be in the same position).
My... (5 Replies)
I have about 20 CSV's that all look like this:
"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""What I've been told I need to produce is the exact same thing, but with each file now containing the start_code from every other file where the email matches.
It doesn't matter if any of the other... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I need to insert varying lines (i.e. these lines are an output of another script) between lines starting with certain fields.
An example to make it more clear.
This is the file where I wanna insert lines:
(save it as "input.txt")
ContrInMi_c_mir 2 10066 181014 200750... (12 Replies)
Hi,
1. Each message starts with date
2. There is blank line between each message
3. Each message does not contain same number of lines.
Any help in merging multiple lines in each message to a single line is much appreciated.
AIX: Korn Shell
Error log file looks like below.
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I have been working of this script for a very long time and I have searched the internet for direction but I am stuck here.
I have about 3000 files with two columns each. The length of each file is 50000. Each of these files is named this way b.4, b.5, b.6, b.7, b.8, b.9, b.10, b.11, b.12... (10 Replies)
I do have a text file with multiple lines on it. I want to put the lines of text into a single line where ever there is ";"
for example
ert, ryt, yvig,
fgr;
rtyu, hjk, uio,
hyu,
hjo;
ghj, tyu, gho,
hjp, jklo,
kol;
The resultant file I would like to have is
ert, ryt, yvig, fgr;... (2 Replies)
I Want to merge multiple lines based on the 1st field and keep into single record.
SRC File:
AAA_POC_DB.TAB1
AAA_POC_DB.TAB2
AAA_POC_DB.TAB3
AAA_POC_DB.TAB4
BBB_POC_DB.TAB1
BBB_POC_DB.TAB2
CCC_POC_DB.TAB6
OUTPUT
-----------------
'AAA_POC_DB','TAB1','TAB2','TAB3','TAB4'... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I am attempting to merge the following lines which run over two lines using awk.
INITIAL OUTPUT
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.695 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.695 hkaet9612 %ETHPORT-5-IF_DOWN_INTERFACE_REMOVED: Interfa
ce Ethernet1/45 is down (Interface removed)... (10 Replies)