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awk-merging files by field number

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Name: Fernando Cardenas
Date: October 31, 1999 at 10:29:48 Pacific
Subject: awk-merging files by field number

Comment:

Hello there,
Please help. I would like to know how to put
two different files together in one, an be able to print specific fields(ex.first field of each file separated from the other fields.)
thanks in advance for your help.

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Response Number 1

Name: Muddassir
Date: November 4, 1999 at 02:54:57 Pacific
Subject: awk-merging files by field number

Reply: (edit)

for i in `cat file1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
do
(( cntr=$cntr+1 ))
cat file2 | awk -v field1=$i -v recno=$cntr '
{
if ( NR==recno )
{
{ print field1 $2 };
}
}'
done >> file3

please check out for any syntex error
Space is assumed as field seperator.

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