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Why does this not work...
This doesn't work: awk ' NR == FNR { x=$1 ; next } { y=$1 } {if (x==y) print $0} ' file1.in catalog.cat > file2.res I'm trying to make a list of catalog entries that match the line headers in file1. The program instead outputs a copy of file1. That doesn't make... -
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building from multiple files
Thanks again! Could you just explain a detail to me please? My file ended up with too many lines, so I added this command: awk -v n=13 'NR>n{print a[NR%n]}{a[NR%n]=$0}' to removes the last 13 lines, it works, but I would rather use awk -v n=NR/2 'NR>n{print a[NR%n]}{a[NR%n]=$0}' to remove... -
building from multiple files
Yo, thank you :) That's very helpful. It work and I also sorted the headers. I really augth to learn this awk thing better, it's quite impressive what it can achieve. -
building from multiple files
I forgot to say x1 to x13 in the last table are headers, they're not part of any previous file. -
building from multiple files
Hi! Basically, I have 2 text files and need to combine them into one while making a few changes. The commands I came up with were too long/slow so I figured some more familiar with awk could help me. Basically I have these 2 files, were N~50000 : file1.res 1 a1 a2 ... a13 2 b1 b2 ... b13 ...
