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# 8  
Old 07-19-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by saurabh kumar
Thanks RudyC for the explanation. The pattern will be
Code:
[digit]{1,}[acd][digit]{1,}

i.e atleast one digit followed by any one of the characters a,c,d and followed by one or more digits.
Which is true for these two lines in file2
Quote:
2388,2391d2387
< 1172c1172
I'd say your regex is not selective enough...?
# 9  
Old 07-20-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Which is true for these two lines in file2I'd say your regex is not selective enough...?
Yes, the regex is not selective enough. Apologies for the miss. I have to add starting with < or > to the above regex.
# 10  
Old 07-20-2013
Well, try this on multiple patterns in file2:
Code:
awk     '/< [0-9]+[acd][0-9]+/          {SRC[$2]; next}
         $1 in SRC                      {print PATH}
         $1 ~ /^\//                     {PATH = $1}
        ' file2 file1

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