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# 8  
Old 04-28-2019
That's an awk script, independent of the shell running it. It will run flawlessly as given in post #3. DON'T change code unless knowing exactly what you are doing; why change it to a one-liner? Any errors?


The "standard shell" is the Bourne shell sh and its decendants like bash or ksh.
Try the chsh (change login shell) command, mayhap reading its man page upfront.
Can't talk for the C shell; try "process substitution" in e.g. bash. If that can't be deployed, work through intermediate files.
# 9  
Old 04-29-2019
There was one ' too many.
Code:
awk 'FNR==NR {a[$0]++; next} '\!'($0 in a)'  file[12]

The shell sees 'string'\!'string', and the awk sees string!string.
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