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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to compare two columns in two files? Post 302968735 by PRAMOD 96 on Monday 14th of March 2016 05:36:44 AM
Old 03-14-2016
Code:
awk 'NR==FNR{A[$2]=$1; B[$2]=$3; next} {$3=A[$1]; $4=B[$1]}1' FS=, OFS=, a.dat b.dat


Last edited by Don Cragun; 06-09-2016 at 02:31 AM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
 

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ARP2ETHERS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     ARP2ETHERS(8)

NAME
arp2ethers - convert arpwatch address database to ethers file format SYNOPSIS
arp2ethers DESCRIPTION
arp2ethers converts file arp.dat in the current directory into ethers(5) format on stdout. Usually arp.dat is an ethernet/ip database file generated by arpwatch(8). The arpwatch daemon in Debian will create different arp.dat depending on its configuration. All of them will be available at /var/lib/arpwatch/. FILES
/var/lib/arpwatch - default directory for arp.dat arp.dat - ethernet/ip address database SEE ALSO
arpwatch(8), ethers(5), rarp(8), arp(8), BUGS
Please send bug reports to arpwatch@ee.lbl.gov. AUTHORS
Original version by Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Network Research Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA. Modified for the Debian Project by Peter Kelemen, with additions from Erik Warmelink. The current version is available via anonymous ftp: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/arpwatch.tar.gz This manual page was contributed by Hugo Graumann. ARP2ETHERS(8)
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