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Old 11-17-2011
Question find lines in another file based on contents in a second file
Hello,

I have a file with tab delimited columns like:

File1
Code:
A    2    C    R
F    4    D    Q
C    9    A    B
......

I want to grep out the lines in a second file, File2, corresponding to each line in File1

Can I do this:

Code:
while read a b c d
do
grep '$a\t$b\t$c\t$d' File2 >> Results
done < File1

Or is there a more efficient way to achieve the same results?

Thanks for your input!
~Guss
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Last edited by vgersh99; 11-17-2011 at 07:02 PM.. Reason: code tags, please!
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Old 11-17-2011
Code:
grep -f file1 file2
# OR (depending on the actual content of your file1)
fgrep -f file1 file2

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Old 11-17-2011
Hi vgersh99,

Thanks for your reply. The code works, however, since I have several thousand rows in both file1 as well as file2, this will take a long time.

~Guss
 
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