Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations IamaSherpa on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
-
how to compare two fields in different lines with awk?
Hi again! many thanks PHV !!! it worked really well!! it is so beautiful to get what you want with a simple line! Can you just tell me if I understand well what you did : - "x[$3]=$0" : you created a dictionary in which you associated the number in column 3 with the full line in which you... -
how to compare two fields in different lines with awk?
Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to compare two fields that are in different lines? I have a file that looks like this: a b 145 c d e f 102 g h i j 247 k l m n 102 o p and I would like to get for example here the two lines that contains "102" in $4. I first sorted out the file...
