@OP, you second suggestion seems to work alright but you forgot the second quote:
However, it would read the whole of file1 first and put it in memory..
Another approach you could try:
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hey guys, I have two files both with two columns, I have already created an
awk code to ignore certain lines (e.g lines that start with 963) as they wou
ld begin with a certain string, however, the rest I have added together and
calculated the average.
At the moment the code also displays... (3 Replies)
I have two files like this:
#FILE 1
ABCD 4322 26485
JMTJ 5311 97248
XMPJ 4321 58978
#FILE 2
ABCD 4321 26485
JMTJ 5311 97248
XMPJ 4321 68978
What to do: Compare the two files and find those lines that doesn't match. And have a new file like this:
#FILE 3
"from file 1"
ABCD 4322 26485... (11 Replies)
Hello,
I am strugling from quite a some time to compare flat files with over 1 million records could anyone please help me.
I want to compare two pipe delimited flat files, file1 with file2 and output the unmatched rows from file2 in file3
Sample File1:
... (9 Replies)
It seems like a common task, but I haven't been able to find the solution.
vitallog.txt
1310,John,Hancock
13211,Steven,Mills
122,Jane,Doe
138,Thoms,Doe
1500,Micheal,May
vitalinfo.txt
12122,Jane,Thomas
122,Janes,Does
123,Paul,Kite
**OUTPUT**
vitalfiltered.txt
12122,Jane,Thomas... (2 Replies)
Hello. I have two files. FILE1 was extracted from FILE2 and modified thanks to help from this post. Now I need to replace the extracted, modified lines into the original file (FILE2) to produce the FILE3.
FILE1
1466 55.27433 14.72050 -2.52E+03 3.00E-01 1.05E+04 2.57E+04
1467 55.27433... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to compare two columns from file1 with another two column of file2 and print matched and unmatched column like this
File1
1 rs1 abc
3 rs4 xyz
1 rs3 stu
File2
1 kkk rs1 AA 10
1 aaa rs2 DD 20
1 ccc ... (2 Replies)
Hi
PRIM_SEQ=`some sql code`
and output of PRIM_SEQ is like below
120
130
STB_SEQ=`some sql code`
and output of STB_SEQ is like below
115
110
i need to compare this two variables output ( decimal numbers)
1) What I want to do is to compare every number in the PRIM_SEQ with... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: amar1208
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
join
JOIN(1) General Commands Manual JOIN(1)NAME
join - relational database operator
SYNOPSIS
join [ options ] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
Join forms, on the standard output, a join of the two relations specified by the lines of file1 and file2. If file1 is `-', the standard
input is used.
File1 and file2 must be sorted in increasing ASCII collating sequence on the fields on which they are to be joined, normally the first in
each line.
There is one line in the output for each pair of lines in file1 and file2 that have identical join fields. The output line normally con-
sists of the common field, then the rest of the line from file1, then the rest of the line from file2.
Fields are normally separated by blank, tab or newline. In this case, multiple separators count as one, and leading separators are dis-
carded.
These options are recognized:
-an In addition to the normal output, produce a line for each unpairable line in file n, where n is 1 or 2.
-e s Replace empty output fields by string s.
-jn m Join on the mth field of file n. If n is missing, use the mth field in each file.
-o list
Each output line comprises the fields specified in list, each element of which has the form n.m, where n is a file number and m is a
field number.
-tc Use character c as a separator (tab character). Every appearance of c in a line is significant.
SEE ALSO sort(1), comm(1), awk(1)BUGS
With default field separation, the collating sequence is that of sort -b; with -t, the sequence is that of a plain sort.
The conventions of join, sort, comm, uniq, look and awk(1) are wildly incongruous.
7th Edition April 29, 1985 JOIN(1)