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Awk help

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chipmate (TechnicalUser)

10 Dec 10 3:38

Hi

After run I do get 5 or 6 file every day ,I have a fixed file1 also ,What I want that awk will read file one and get matched line from other file and write result in next column --
like -RESULT
-----------------file1--file2----file 3---file4--------------------------
app man TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE
mo mi FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
ch chu TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
tik tok TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE

file 1--

app man
mo mi
ch chu
tik tok

file 2 --Diffrent order
app man TRUE
tik tok TRUE
mo mi FALSE
ch chu TRUE

file 3- diffrent order
app man FALSE
tik tok FALSE
mo mi TRUE
ch chu TRUE

file 4- diffrent order
app man TRUE
tik tok FALSE
mo mi TRUE
ch chu TRUE

Thanks in advance
Chipmate

p5wizard (IS/IT--Management)

10 Dec 10 5:36

Quick & dirty (and doesn't give the ouput in the order that the records appear in file1):

CODE

for file in file1 file2 file3 file4
do
sort -o $file $file
done

paste file1 file2 file3 file4|awk '{print $1,$2,$5,$8,$11}'

But I'm sure someone will come up with an all-awk (array) solution.

HTH,

p5wizard

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