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Originally Posted by aaysa123

can you pls revert for other two requirement as well

Try this:

Code:

awk -F, '
NR==FNR{a[$1]=$0;next}
$1 in a{print a[$1] FS $2; delete a[$1];next}
{print > "e.txt"}
END {for(i in a){print a[i] > "d.txt"}}' a.txt b.txt > c.txt

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