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# 8  
Old 05-19-2014
Wonder if that would work!

Code:
awk 'NR==FNR{t=$1; gsub("\47", "", t); a[t]=$0; next} {if( $1 in a) {gsub(" \47", "\47", a[$1]);print a[$1]}}' file2 file1

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phaethon
# 9  
Old 05-19-2014
If we keep file1 as it was in the original question and change file2 to contain:
Code:
'zita'    'keepnumbers '   'keepnumbers '   'keepnumbers'
'gama' keepnumbers  'keepnumbers '	'keepnumbers'
'misc'  'keepnumbers ' keepnumbers  'keepnumbers'
'alfa '    'keepnumbers '  'keepnumbers '   'keepnumbers'

(note that there is a tab between the last two fields instead of specs on the line containing "gamma"), Aia's code in message #8 in this thread produces:
Code:
'alfa'   'keepnumbers' 'keepnumbers'  'keepnumbers'
'gama' keepnumbers 'keepnumbers'	'keepnumbers'
'zita'   'keepnumbers''keepnumbers''keepnumbers'

which I think got rid of too many spaces.

If I understand the third set of requirements properly (only remove a single space at the end of fields between pairs of single quotes; keep spaces between fields as they were), I think this does what you want:
Code:
awk -v sq="'" '
BEGIN {	FS = OFS = sq
}
FNR == NR {
	for(i = 2; i <= NF; i +=2)
		if(substr($i, length($i)) == " ")
			$i = substr($i, 1, length($i) - 1)
	d[$2] = $0
	next
}
$1 in d {
	print d[$1]
}' file2 FS=" " file1 > file3

which produces the following output:
Code:
'alfa'    'keepnumbers'  'keepnumbers'   'keepnumbers'
'gama' keepnumbers  'keepnumbers'	'keepnumbers'
'zita'    'keepnumbers' 'keepnumbers' 'keepnumbers'

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phaethon
# 10  
Old 05-19-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
which I think got rid of too many spaces.

If I understand the third set of requirements properly (only remove a single space at the end of fields between pairs of single quotes; keep spaces between fields as they were)
Due to FS. Smilie
For the sake of keeping the gsub() saga.

Code:
awk 'NR==FNR {gsub(" \47", "\47");gsub("\47\47", "\47 \47"); t=$1; gsub("\47", "", t); s[t]=$0; next} $1 in s {print s[$1]}' file2 file1

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phaethon
# 11  
Old 05-19-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
Due to FS. Smilie
For the sake of keeping the gsub() saga.

Code:
awk 'NR==FNR {gsub(" \47", "\47");gsub("\47\47", "\47 \47"); t=$1; gsub("\47", "", t); s[t]=$0; next} $1 in s {print s[$1]}' file2 file1

If you have an empty quoted field in the input such as in:
Code:
'alfa '    'keepnumbers '  'keepnumbers '   ''

this will remove spaces at the ends of the quoted fields that have spaces and add a space to the empty quoted field. It also still removes a space between fields when there are multiple spaces between field in the input. as in:
Code:
'alfa'   'keepnumbers' 'keepnumbers'  ' '

instead of:
Code:
'alfa'    'keepnumbers'  'keepnumbers'   ''

But, of course, we have no way of knowing whether or not this matters to the OP since requirements for these cases were not specified.
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phaethon
# 12  
Old 05-21-2014
Thank you very much both! Both of your solutions worked ut fine! you are an inspiration!
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