Read each word from File1 and search each file in file2

[clem2610]

file1: has all words to be searched.
100007
200999
299997

File2: has all file names to be searched.

C:\search1.txt
C:\search2.txt
C:\search3.txt
C:\search4.txt

Outfile: should have all found lines.

Logic: Read each word in file1 and search each file in the list of File2; if the word found; print the entire line in outfile.

Pls help, thanks in advance.

 

[PHV]

What have you tried so far and where in your code are you stuck ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[clem2610]

I do not have any AWK code; I have c# code; It takes a long time to process it in c#; and so I want to do it AWK. 10 yrs back I did some work in AWK;

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

The file names seem to be WinDoze files.
Try using the WinDoze Explorer "Search" functionality.





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The person who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it. -- Chinese proverb

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

Or if your OS is Unix, maybe you can just use grep

cat file2| xargs grep -f file1 >outfile

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The person who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it. -- Chinese proverb