How to get AWK to output 2 fields at once
Bill Irwin
bill at twg.bc.ca
Mon Oct 29 06:20:04 AEST 1990
I have what initially seemed to be a simple requirement: get the first
two fields from each line in file_1, and use them as a search pattern for
GREP to extract matching lines in file_2. Sounds simple doesn't it? Not
for someone with very limited knowledge of AWK! The first pass at this
was:
for x in `cat file_1 | awk '{ print $1 " " $2 }'`
do
grep "$x" file_2
done
Of course, the GREP routine executed with x having the value of the first
field of the first line of file_1, then with the value of the second
field of the first line of file_1, then the first field of the second
line, .....
Is there a way to get AWK to output "field_1 field_2" as the value of x,
so that this can be used as the search pattern for GREP, rather than
"field_1" "field_2" "field_1" "field_2"?
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