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# 1  
Old 05-24-2010
Searching in another file
Hi ALL,

I need to search the contents present in one file with another file.

File 1
Code:
David E0001 
Suresh E0002

File 2
Code:
David
  company - ETL
Suresh
  company - ELT
Venkat
  company - EET

I need to print company name from File 2 for the list of names available in File 1. I need your guidance to resolve this as i am new to UNIX.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by radoulov; 05-24-2010 at 09:57 AM.. Reason: Added code tags!
# 2  
Old 05-24-2010
I see you've been new to unix for two years. Write a script to read each line in file one into two variables, name and number, then grep file 2 for the existence of name.
You will probably find it easier if name and company are on the same line in file 2.
Take into consideration that there may be multiple answers to the search.
# 3  
Old 05-24-2010
You can do something like that :
Code:
awk '
NR==FNR { name=$1 ; getline ; company[name]=$3 ; next }
{ print $0,company[$1] }
' sekar2.txt sekar1.txt

Output:
Code:
David E0001  ETL
Suresh E0002 ELT

Jean-Pierre.
# 4  
Old 05-25-2010
Hi,

Thanks. i tried your code, but it display contents from both file. I tried up myself to first find the number of lines in the file1 and thinking of storing the values in array and perform the search in fiel 2.
Code:
targetfile1="/apps/file1.txt"
targetfile2="/apps/file2.txt"
i=echo `sed -n '$=' "$targetfile1"`
echo $i >> $targetfile

The above code is not working. please guide me.
# 5  
Old 05-25-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sekar1
Hi,

Thanks. i tried your code, but it display contents from both file. I tried up myself to first find the number of lines in the file1 and thinking of storing the values in array and perform the search in fiel 2.
Code:
targetfile1="/apps/file1.txt"
targetfile2="/apps/file2.txt"
i=echo `sed -n '$=' "$targetfile1"`
echo $i >> $targetfile

The above code is not working. please guide me.
What output do you expect from your sample data ?

Jean-Pierre.
# 6  
Old 05-25-2010
Sekar1,
how should the output exactly look like?
# 7  
Old 05-26-2010
Hi ,
pls find my code

Code:
targetfile="/apps/file.txt"
targetfile1="/apps/file1.txt"
atxt="/apps/a.txt"
totalrecs=`sed -n $= $targetfile1`
tot=1
cat $targetfile1 | while read c_line
do
ARRAY14[$tot]=`echo "$c_line"`
tot=$i+1
done
fet=1
while [ $fet -le $tot ]
do
l=`echo $(grep -n $ARRAY14[$fet] "$atxt" | cut -d":" -f1)`
i=$l-2
j=$l+10
sed -n "$j"p filename
sed -n "$i"p filename
fet=$fet+1
done

I have 2 files. "file.txt" holds the string to be searched in "file1.txt". so i stored the values into array and performed the seach in file1.txt. once the string is found, i need to extract 2nd above the matched string and 10th line below the matched string. pls correct the mistake which i did in the code and give me updates.
Thanks in advance.
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