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file1
text1 10

file2
text1textabc 10

Regular expression search criterion ("find digit in field 1")

[0-9]

output file
text1textabc 10

The previous post showed the example script and the errors?

In summary "where a regular expression (e.g. [0-9]) within field 1 matches both file1 and file2, export that line into file3, but in the format of file2".

Not tried much yet. So far I have tried to understand the meaning of the command 'idx' but search results have not described this command. Example below:

file1:
text1 10
text2 20

file2:...

Readers,

Reading a previous post about comparing files using awk ('awk-compare-2-columns-2-files-output-whole-line',...