How to compare two columns and retrieve data


 
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Hi Yazu,

Thank you for being so helpful. I tried this code and it didn't work.
awk '$1 == $5' problem.txt
I am not sure if I understand your question. All I am trying to do is to write a new file with data from matching columns 1 and 5.
My input file has two sets of data. One set is from column 1 to 4 and another set is from column 5 to 8. Column 1 and 5 have similar numbers. I want to match those similarities and get all the other data from these files.

Hope my explanation is clear. Please let me know if you understand my question.

Thank you again.
 
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