f1 has 48000 lines, and f2 has 68. I have been matching f1 $3 to f2 $1, and getting f3:
A A B C D E F G
I would like f3 too look like this:
A X Y Z A B C D E F G
basically I want all of the fields for f2 to appear in the output as well.
Here's one of the things I've tried:
I've also tried matching f2 $1 to f1 $3 using the above. The problem is that, while I get all of the f2 fields, my awk command does not preserve the row order of f1, and I could not come up with a way to do that, so at the moment controlling the output of a f1 to f2 comparison seems to be the easiest approach.
Thanks for your help, I am certainly grateful.
Robert
The short answer is to process f2 first, then process f1. This will reduce your memory footprint as you'll only save 68 things in a[] rather than 48K things.
The long answer is to be a bit more clever which might also help speed things up. Your programme will loop through the entire contents of file f1 for each record in f2 (48,000 * 68) testing to see if there's a match. Instead, use the hash capabilities of awk to your advantage.
This example assumes that the 'key' (field 1 in file 2) can occur multiple times and so we must do a bit of looping for each f1 record, but the only looping needed when reading limited to the number of duplicate 'keys' that existed in f2 for the current f1 record. If f2 will not have duplicates, then the code can be simplified more, but not knowing you exact data, this general case will work for either. We also don't need to make an explicit check to see if the key in the current record matches the one saved from f2.
Hope this makes sense.
Last edited by agama; 06-19-2011 at 12:07 PM..
Reason: Corrected printf to output f2 then f1
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