UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Yes, you can use the awk substr() function to grab substrings. If your uncompressed FILE1 contained any of the strings in FILE2, the following awk script would print lines containing any matching lines:

Code:

awk '
FNR == NR {
	CPA[$1]
	next
}
substr($0, 88, 12) in CPA' FILE2 FILE1

but, as has already been stated, no lines in your sample files match.

If we add the following line to your sample FILE2:

Code:

123456789012

and the following line to your sample FILE1:

Code:

201  3386401372                      2015-05-11-07.40.33.000000000000024000000000000001123456789012NES000000003112701320119EC9P          0PAM001CO  000000003                    10000004  GUNB-GSTTZ  GPRSN20150603000000000000001132||||    01444617541413895397098

then the above code prints the line added to FILE1.

If you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk.