Interesting. I just ran it again, and it is it doesn't seem to be working. Indeed, the four lines of output you posted are correct, but the four that I get are off. I'm going to have to do some more investigating.
Here is my output for
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Ah, R. Singh! I think I figured it out! In your code:
You have both fields $1 and $2, set to null ("") and therefore it is just repeating one of the fields when it goes to print. If only $1 of file1 is set to null ($1="") then it works as you say for the lines of output here.
However, even at that, as I scan through the rest of the output there are other lines not showing the correct values.
Hi,
I have two files. 1st file has 1 column (huge file containing ~19200000 lines) and 2nd file has 2 columns (small file containing ~6000 lines).
#################################
huge_file.txt
a
a
ab
b
##################################
small_file.txt
a 1.5
b 2.5
ab ... (4 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am very new to scripting and have a prb since few days and it is urgent to solve so much appreciated if u help me.
i have 2 files
file1.txt
9647810043118
9647810043126
9647810043155
9647810043161
9647810043166
9647810043185
9647810043200
9647810043203
9647810043250... (22 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file filled with search strings which have a blank in between and look like this:
S. g. Ehr.
o. Jg.
v. d. Chijs
g. Ehr.
Now i would like to search for the strings and it also shall return the next column after the match.
awk -v FILE="search_strings.txt" 'BEGIN {... (10 Replies)
I have two files... file1 and file2.
Where columns 1 and 2 of file1 match columns 1 and 2 of file2 I want to create a new file that is all file1 + columns 3 and 4 of file2
:b: Many thanks if you know how to do this.... :b:
file1
31-101 106 0 92
31-101 106 29 ... (2 Replies)
I have a file with many lines which contain strings like .. etc.
But with no rule regarding field separators or anything else.
I want to print ONLY THE STRING from each line , not the entire line !!!
For example from the lines :
Flow on service executed with success in . Performances... (5 Replies)
Hello everyone,
Maybe somebody could help me with an awk script.
I have this input (field separator is comma ","):
547894982,M|N|J,U|Q|P,98,101,0,1,1
234900027,M|N|J,U|Q|P,98,101,0,1,1
234900023,M|N|J,U|Q|P,98,54,3,1,1
234900028,M|H|J,S|Q|P,98,101,0,1,1
234900030,M|N|J,U|F|P,98,101,0,1,1... (2 Replies)
Hi experts,
I have a file with regexes which is used for automatic searches on several files (40+ GB).
To do some postprocessing with the grep result I need the matching line as well as the match itself.
I know that the latter could be achieved with grep's -o option. But I'm not aware of a... (2 Replies)
Trying to use awk to match the contents of each line in file1 with $5 in file2. Both files are tab-delimited and there may be a space or special character in the name being matched in file2, for example in file1 the name is BRCA1 but in file2 the name is BRCA 1 or in file1 name is BCR but in file2... (6 Replies)
I've written an awk script to compare two fields in two different files and then print portions of each file on the same line when matched. It works reasonably well, but every now and again, I notice some errors and cannot seem to figure out what the issue may be and am turning to you for help.
... (2 Replies)
I cannot seem to get what should be a simple awk one-liner to work correctly and cannot figure out why. I would like to use patterns from a specific field in one file as regex to search for matching strings in the entire line ($0) of another file.
I would like to output the lines of File2 which... (1 Reply)
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join
JOIN(1) BSD General Commands Manual JOIN(1)NAME
join -- relational database operator
SYNOPSIS
join [-a file_number | -v file_number] [-e string] [-o list] [-t char] [-1 field] [-2 field] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
The join utility performs an ``equality join'' on the specified files and writes the result to the standard output. The ``join field'' is
the field in each file by which the files are compared. The first field in each line is used by default. There is one line in the output
for each pair of lines in file1 and file2 which have identical join fields. Each output line consists of the join field, the remaining
fields from file1 and then the remaining fields from file2.
The default field separators are tab and space characters. In this case, multiple tabs and spaces count as a single field separator, and
leading tabs and spaces are ignored. The default output field separator is a single space character.
Many of the options use file and field numbers. Both file numbers and field numbers are 1 based, i.e. the first file on the command line is
file number 1 and the first field is field number 1. The following options are available:
-a file_number
In addition to the default output, produce a line for each unpairable line in file file_number.
-e string
Replace empty output fields with string.
-o list
The -o option specifies the fields that will be output from each file for each line with matching join fields. Each element of list
has the either the form 'file_number.field', where file_number is a file number and field is a field number, or the form '0' (zero),
representing the join field. The elements of list must be either comma (``,'') or whitespace separated. (The latter requires quot-
ing to protect it from the shell, or, a simpler approach is to use multiple -o options.)
-t char
Use character char as a field delimiter for both input and output. Every occurrence of char in a line is significant.
-v file_number
Do not display the default output, but display a line for each unpairable line in file file_number. The options -v 1 and -v 2 may be
specified at the same time.
-1 field
Join on the field'th field of file 1.
-2 field
Join on the field'th field of file 2.
When the default field delimiter characters are used, the files to be joined should be ordered in the collating sequence of sort(1), using
the -b option, on the fields on which they are to be joined, otherwise join may not report all field matches. When the field delimiter char-
acters are specified by the -t option, the collating sequence should be the same as sort(1) without the -b option.
If one of the arguments file1 or file2 is ``-'', the standard input is used.
DIAGNOSTICS
The join utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
COMPATIBILITY
For compatibility with historic versions of join, the following options are available:
-a In addition to the default output, produce a line for each unpairable line in both file 1 and file 2.
-j1 field
Join on the field'th field of file 1.
-j2 field
Join on the field'th field of file 2.
-j field
Join on the field'th field of both file 1 and file 2.
-o list ...
Historical implementations of join permitted multiple arguments to the -o option. These arguments were of the form
'file_number.field_number' as described for the current -o option. This has obvious difficulties in the presence of files named
'1.2'.
These options are available only so historic shellscripts don't require modification and should not be used.
STANDARDS
The join command conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
SEE ALSO awk(1), comm(1), paste(1), sort(1), uniq(1)BSD April 18, 2002 BSD