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Old 03-06-2012
How to grep multiple lines from a text file using another text file?
I would like to use grep to select multiple lines from a text file using a single-column text file. Basically I want to only select lines from the first text file where the second column of the first text file matches the second text file. How do I go about doing that? Thanks!
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Old 03-06-2012
Can you show an example?

Does this demonstrate how it can be done?
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...ther-file.html
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Old 03-06-2012
Sure:
1st text file:
Code:
1340 NA07022 0 0 1 -9 C C 0 0 0 0 0 0 G 
1340 NA07029 0 1 1 -9 C C 0 0 0 0 0 A T
1341 NA07034 0 0 1 -9 C C 0 0 0 0 0 0 G    
1341 NA07048 2 1 1 -9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 G C
1341 NA07055 0 0 2 -9 C C 0 0 0 0 0 0 G

2nd text file:
Code:
NA07022
NA07055

Output:
Code:
1340 NA07022 0 0 1 -9 C C 0 0 0 0 0 0 G  
1341 NA07055 0 0 2 -9 C C 0 0 0 0 0 0 G

Last edited by Corona688; 03-06-2012 at 05:10 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please
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Old 03-06-2012
You're asking for tiny variations on nearly the exact same thing, over and over. If you learned the awk language, it would be very simple for you to slightly change all the things you've already been given, to do these things yourself.

You've also forgotten to post in code tags again.

Code:
awk 'NR==FNR { A[$1]=1; next }; A[$2]' file2 file1

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Old 06-27-2012
How would I modify the code if instead of printing the rows that match, the output prints the rows that do not match so that the output looks like:

Code:
1340 NA07029 0 1 1 -9 C C 0 0 0 0 0 A T
1341 NA07034 0 0 1 -9 C C 0 0 0 0 0 0 G    
1341 NA07048 2 1 1 -9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 G C

Thanks!
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Old 06-27-2012
Code:
~/unix.com$ grep -Ff f2 f1

The reverse:
Code:
~/unix.com$ grep -vFf f2 f1

In awk, based on Corona688's solution:
Code:
~/unix.com$ awk 'NR==FNR{A[$1]=1;next}A[$2]' f2 f1

The reverse:
Code:
~/unix.com$ awk 'NR==FNR{A[$1]=1;next}!A[$2]' f2 f1

Last edited by tukuyomi; 06-27-2012 at 04:06 PM.. Reason: Nitpick :p
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