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noobcodersan
noobcodersan

Reputation: 33

Linux getting same values on different text files

I have two text files with different outputs. I would like to find the common lines by comparing these two files. This is just an example but I'm finding common values. file2.txt contains 2 columns.

file1.txt contains:

12XVGAS4RJQ3wZopCc7bvjRSjHBrRR9bmw 
12XVGsHANa9s4Szkmk73nTC5vTJHdFfx7w 
12XVGwB6c72mmQCqEwCQtbuKmStw5RqW3X 
12XVHEx5yorWhjxzFHMBW1ynPVCNwWfiDR
19vLAtK2PivKYB1ZT1J7dykw3rYga4SoVu

file2.txt contains:

125jHr5Gu4frTE3vqqf7w826wAGbvwUbo2  300
125JHs2AGKNuiSe7LGhVXEe4p6pasXiVme 100
12XVGwB6c72mmQCqEwCQtbuKmStw5RqW3X 900
12XVHEx5yorWhjxzFHMBW1ynPVCNwWfiDR 1000
19vLAtK2PivKYB1ZT1J7dykw3rYga4SoVu 0.93

This command will not work

comm -12 <(sort file1.txt) <(sort file2.txt)

I would like to extract the common values and have an output of

12XVGwB6c72mmQCqEwCQtbuKmStw5RqW3X 900
12XVHEx5yorWhjxzFHMBW1ynPVCNwWfiDR 1000 
19vLAtK2PivKYB1ZT1J7dykw3rYga4SoVu 0.93

How will I get this output?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 70

Answers (2)

Ed Morton
Ed Morton

Reputation: 204164

Assuming that, like in the example you provided, neither file has duplicate first field values then using any awk:

$ awk 'NR==FNR{a[$1]; next} $1 in a' file1.txt file2.txt
12XVGwB6c72mmQCqEwCQtbuKmStw5RqW3X 900
12XVHEx5yorWhjxzFHMBW1ynPVCNwWfiDR 1000
19vLAtK2PivKYB1ZT1J7dykw3rYga4SoVu 0.93

Upvotes: 1

m19v
m19v

Reputation: 2192

Use join:

join <(sort file1.txt) <(sort file2.txt)

Output:

12XVGwB6c72mmQCqEwCQtbuKmStw5RqW3X 900
12XVHEx5yorWhjxzFHMBW1ynPVCNwWfiDR 1000
19vLAtK2PivKYB1ZT1J7dykw3rYga4SoVu 0.93

Upvotes: 3

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