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Joined: Jul 24, 2008
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Posted Jul 24, 2008 at 5:42:09 PM
Subject: join command
Dear friends We are on rhel4.4 .when I am using the join command the syntex is not under stood by me .Can anyone explain ?? I want to join file1 on field 1 with file2 on field 1 with output required is 1,2,3,4,5 fileds of file2 . I have exprimented with [b]join -1 1 -2 1 -o 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 file1 file2 > filenew [/b] But could not succeed . Thanks in advance.
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tophandcwby
Joined Apr 10, 2008
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Posted: Jul 25, 2008 2:23:45 PM
I'm not sure what you are trying to do exactly, but the output specifier needs to be either quoted or comma separated. join -1 1 -2 1 -o '2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5' file1 file2 > filenew join -1 1 -2 1 -o 2.1,2.2,2.3,2.4,2.5 file1 file2 > filenew
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vakharia mahesh
Joined Jul 24, 2008
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Posted: Jul 28, 2008 4:25:03 AM
Dear Frined Thanks lot and now it is fine and working .Bundle of thanks for your time devotion .Cheer dear .Have great week end.Bye for now. :)
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