Re: Using one file to edit a second file.

"Thierry Blanc [email protected] [sed-users]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.sed.user
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sed -f <(sed -r 's|.*\t(.*)|/\1\t/d|'  file1) file2

This assuming that file2 is also tab delimited and does not have an IP followed by a tab in the variable data 

On November 4, 2014 5:26:49 PM EET, "Tim Chase [email protected] [sed-users]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 2014-11-04 05:01, [email protected] [sed-users] wrote:
>> Maybe I should have given a little more info or the more realistic
>> issue. 
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>You know what they say, GIGO :-)  Give an incomplete example, you'll
>get answers that don't actually solve your issues.
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>> file1 is actually  a list of know exceptions. The format is given
>> below and is tab delimited but I can squash to a single space ... 
>> 
>> icmp snmp ssh   
>> N       N       N       hostname              10.10.10.10
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>So if I understand correctly, you're only interested in the last
>field of this file.
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>> I then have file2, a "seedfile", Im basically trying to remove the
>> know exceptions from the seed file. Its format is 
>> 
>> 10.101.101.12 hostname Router (some other variable data)
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>Then you want to filter this file based on the first tab-delimited
>column, excluding those items found in that first file.  I think the
>following would do the trick:
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>  grep -vf <(sed '1d;s/.*\t\(.*\)/^\1\t/;s/\./\\./g' exceptions.txt)
>  seedfile.txt 
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>This uses a bashism of <([command]) to create a FIFO.  If you use
>another shell that doesn't support it, you can just pipe those
>results to a file, use it, then delete it:
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>  sed '1d;s/.*\t\(.*\)/^\1\t/;s/\./\\./g' exceptions.txt > bad_ips.txt
>  grep -vf bad_ips.txt seedfile.txt
>  rm bad_ips.txt
>
>This does assume that *both* files are tab-delimited.
>
>-tim
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