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Old 11-25-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver need help ...
Hi,

I have two files file1, file2. Now I want to display records of file1 those are in file2
-------i/p-------
file1
08821 09440
08813 09848
08812 09940
040 09940
0411 09940

file2
08812
040

----out put----
08812 09940
040 09940

SureshSmilie
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Old 11-25-2008
Depending on if your file2 has other stuff in it besides the values you're trying to compare, you could just do something like this:

Code:
grep -f file2 file1

that will use file2 as a file of patterns to search for in file1
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