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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash: Pulling first and last character in string Post 302962333 by RudiC on Saturday 12th of December 2015 06:07:00 AM
Old 12-12-2015
Not sure I fully understood what you're after, but you could use this as a starting point:
Code:
awk -F/ '
FNR==NR         {n = split ($1, T, "_")
                 sub (T[n] "$", sprintf ("%d", T[n]), $1)
                 KEY[$1]
                 next   
                }

                {SRCH = toupper($6)   
                 gsub (/-/, "_", SRCH)   
                 n = split (SRCH, T, "_")
                 sub (T[n] "$", sprintf ("%d", T[n]), SRCH)
                }

SRCH in KEY     {print  > SRCH ".txt"}
' file1 file2
cf *WELL*
GOV_WELL_1.txt:
/drill/t/Cnt-143/Wells/Gov_Well-01/Drilling/Government_Well_Mnemonics.dlis
GOV_WELL_201.txt:
/drill/t/Cnt-143/Wells/Gov_Well-201/Drilling/Government_Well_Mnemonics.dlis
/drill/t/Cnt-143/Wells/Gov_Well-201/Drilling/LL3_0893780002.LIS
TEST_WELL_11.txt:
/drive/t/Asset/13_Wells/Test_Well-011/LAS_and_LIS/LL3_9367000.LIS
TEST_WELL_1.txt:
/drive/t/Asset/13_Wells/Test_Well_1/LAS_and_LIS/LL3.LIS
/drive/r/Asset/13_Wells/Test_Well-01/LAS_and_LIS/LL3_9367000.LIS

 

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