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Old 10-03-2014
Delete records based on a text file from a text file

Hi Folks,

I am a novice and need to build a script in bash. I have 2 text files data.txt file is big file, column 2 is the we need to search and delete in the output. The filter file contains the rows to be deleted.

Data.txt
Code:
state 	city	zone
Alabama	Huntsville	4
California	SanDiego	3
Arizona	Tuscon	5
Texas	Dallas	7
Texas	Austin	9
California	SanJose	1
California	Bakersfield	3

Filter.txt
Code:
city
SanDiego
Austin
Tuscon

Output.txt
Code:
state 	city	zone
Alabama	Huntsville	4
Texas	Dallas	7
California	SanJose	1
California	Bakersfield	3

Thanks appreciate your help.

Last edited by rbatte1; 10-03-2014 at 12:54 PM.. Reason: Capital letters
# 2  
Old 10-03-2014
Code:
awk 'FNR==NR{A[$1];next}FNR==1 || !($2 in A)' Filter.txt Data.txt

# 3  
Old 10-03-2014
This should work (except for Washington Smilie )

Code:
grep -v -f Filter.txt Data.txt

# 4  
Old 10-03-2014
If states like New York are entered in the 1st field without spaces, Akshay's code would work correctly; whether or not there are any spaces in the 1st field, the following minor change should work:
Code:
awk -F'\t' 'FNR==NR{A[$1];next}FNR==1 || !($2 in A)' Filter.txt Data.txt

 
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