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I did find additional white space in my file which I removed with tr -d ' '

Thanks again for the replies! I'm all set.

Thanks for the replies, they worked for my small example in the post. I tested it on a couple of test files. However when I applied it to my actual files, nothing is returned from the awk command.
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Hello, hopefully this is an easy on for the AWK guru's out there. I'm having some trouble figuring out how to match+merge data in 2 files into 1 single report.

I've got my 2 files filtered and...

Using either of these methods, is it possible to print a field from file2?

NOTE: I added printing $5 below to get the date from file1 and if at all possible I'd like to print the date ($3) from...

Awesome, works nicely... and I'll run it on my 12,000 line files and see how it goes. Thanks again.

First, thanks for the help in previous posts... couldn't have gotten where I am now without it!

So here is what I have, I use AWK to match $1 and $2 as 1 string in file1 to $1 and $2 as 1 string...

yes i tested it and it seems to work perfect. thanks!

Hi, I have 2 files that I have modified to basically match each other, however I want to determine what (if any) line in file 1 does not exist in file 2. I need to match column $1 and $2 as a single...

Wow, maybe I need to turn on my brain... it's always the obvious that eludes me! Thank you.

In KSH, I am pasting 2 almost identical files together and each one has a date and time on each line. I need to determine if the first instance of the date/time is greater than the 2nd instance of...

Awesome! worked perfect, thanks so much.

Hi, I'm writing a ksh script and trying to use an awk / sed / or perl one-liner to remove the last 4 characters of a line in a file if it begins with a period.

Here is the contents of the file......

My file is in a good column format but several lines in the file begin with a zero. I'm in KSH and looking for a command to remove this zero and keep the text next to it. I don't want any of the...

Thanks but like I said I have mix of files that are writable and some that are not. For the ones that are currently writable I don't want to remove the write bit.
How can I update a many files of...

Hi, I am creating a ksh script to search for a string of text inside files within a directory tree. Some of these file are going to be read/execute only. I know to use chmod to change the permissions...

Hi,

I have a ksh script where I have an awk statement to exclude a few items... but my "few items" has now grown substantially and I'm looking for a nice compact way of doing this. Maybe putting...

I just tested the 'nawk' statement and it worked perfectly... thank you so much for the responses!

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Hello,

I am working with KSH on AIX and I have 2 files generated from different sources... as seen below:

FILE1 FILE2
AAA AAA@ABS0001C
BBB BBB@ABS0003D
CCC CCC@ABS0023A
DDD DDD@ABC0145D...