I do have two files:
File1
12 abc
34 cde
42 dfg
11 df
9 e
File2
23 abc
24 gjr
12 dfg
8 df
I want to merge files column by column (if column 2 is the same) for the output like this:
File1 File2
12 23 abc
42 12 dfg
11 8 df
34 NA cde
9 NA e
NA 24 gjr
How can I do this?
I tried it like this:
cat File* >> tmp; sort tmp | uniq -c | awk '{print $2}' > column2; for i in
$(cat column2); do grep -w "$i" File*
But this is where I am stuck...
Don't know how after greping I should combine files column by column & write NA where value is missing.
Hope someone could help me with this.
Since I was testing with bash
3.2 running as sh
(which does not have process substitution as sh
), I used two temporary files to get the data ready for use with join
:
$ sort -k2b File2 > f2.sort
$ sort -k2b File1 > f1.sort
$ cat f1.sort
12 abc
34 cde
11 df
42 dfg
9 e
$ cat f2.sort
23 abc
8 df
12 dfg
24 gjr
$ join -1 2 -2 2 -o 1.1,2.1,0 -a 1 -a 2 -e NA f1.sort f2.sort
12 23 abc
34 NA cde
11 8 df
42 12 dfg
9 NA e
NA 24 gjr
$
With process substitution, you could write:
join -1 2 -2 2 -o 1.1,2.1,0 -a 1 -a 2 -e NA <(sort -k2b File1) <(sort -k2b File2)
If you want the data formatted differently, use awk
to post-process the output:
$ join -1 2 -2 2 -o 1.1,2.1,0 -a 1 -a 2 -e NA f1.sort f2.sort |
> awk '{ printf "%-5s %-5s %s\n", $1, $2, $3 }'
12 23 abc
34 NA cde
11 8 df
42 12 dfg
9 NA e
NA 24 gjr
$
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