Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:26:44 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> To: SIVARAM N <sivaramn@wipsys.ge.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: awk: working with multiple files Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000112142617.4518A-100000@spectre> In-Reply-To: <002901bf5cdf$c696d7a0$8b2fa8c0@wipsys.ge.com>
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I think the people in freebsd-questions would be able to answer this better than -newbies... - M - On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, SIVARAM N wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 files both of which are sorted on one column. > > File1 file2 > -------- -------- > > CCLC CCLA <desc> > CCLD CCLC <desc> > CCLK CCLD <desc> > ... CCLE <desc> > ... > > For every occurrence of column1 in file1, the desc should be > picked from file2 if an occurrence is found . How do you do > that? > > I think, reading the first file into an associative array in BEGIN would help > but how do I stop reading into the array after the end of the first file & work > with the 2nd file in the body ,when the files are passed through the command > line? > > Please,no Perl , as I have only awk installed currently. > > Regards, > Sivaram > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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