Re: compare files

first:

  * all names are lower case, there is no EXACT match. I assume that the
    names start with upper case
  * dominique;1 2; probably a typo

Create intermediary sed script.

first run

sed -rf sedfile A.txt > tmp.sed

sedfile:

s?(.*);(.*);?/([^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,) '\1'/s||\\1 '\2'|?

(better as a script because of quotes)
this creates a temporary sed script.

then run

sed -rf tmp.sed B.txt >temp.txt

this will replace all occurences

then run
sed -rf sed2 temp.txt

sed2:

/[0-9]/!s|([^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,) '[A-Za-z]*'|\1 '0'|

this will change all lines where nothing was found in file A.txt




On 06/01/17 16:25, MOKRANI Rachid [email protected] [sed-users] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Before to ask my firts question of the year.
> Happy new year to all !
>
>
> Then,
> I have some difficulties to compare two files with with many arguments.
>
>
>
> File A.txt
>
> henry;1;
> christophe;1;
> bill;1;
> nathalie;2;
> jane;2;
> william;1;
> dominique;1 2;
> pierre-henry;1;
>
>
> File B.txt
>
> ( 'TA', 'Christophe', 'Jane', 'Christophe', 'US', 'New York')
> ( 'XA', 'Dominique', 'Grant', 'Dominique', 'US', 'New York'),
> ( 'XA', 'Bill', 'Jane', 'Bill', 'US', 'New York'),
> ( 'BC', 'Nathalie', 'Portman', 'Nathalie', 'US', 'New York'),
> ( 'BC', 'Pierre', 'Robert', 'Pierre', 'US', 'New York'),
> ( 'XV', 'Jane', 'Fonda', 'Jane', 'IT', 'Roma'),
> ( 'HG', 'William', 'Jefferson', 'William', 'US', 'Chicago'),
> ( 'HG', 'Barberousse', 'Pirate', 'Barberousse', 'US', 'Chicago'),
> ( 'XA', 'Henry', 'Grant', 'Henry', 'US', 'Miami'),
>
>
>
> In file B, if the EXACT content of the colum 4 exist in the first colum in the file A.txt, then replace it with the value of the second colum of the file A.txt . it should be only 1 OR 2
>
> And
>
> In file B, if the EXACT content of the colum 4 does not exist in the first colum in the file A.txt, then replace  the value of the fourth colum of the file B.txt  with 0 .
>
>
>
>
> I hope to be clear...
>
>
> Here is the expected result in the example I have just given
>
>
> Need Result.
> ( 'TA', 'Christophe', 'Jane', '1', 'US', 'New York')
> ( 'XA', 'Dominique', 'Grant', '0', 'US', 'New York'),
> ( 'XA', 'Bill', 'Jane', '1', 'US', 'New York'),
> ( 'BC', 'Nathalie', 'Portman', '2', 'US', 'New York'),
> ( 'BC', 'Pierre', 'Robert', '0', 'US', 'New York'),
> ( 'XV', 'Jane', 'Fonda', '2', 'IT', 'Roma'),
> ( 'HG', 'William', 'Jefferson', '1', 'US', 'Chicago'),
> ( 'HG', 'Barberousse', 'Pirate', '0', 'US', 'Chicago'),
> ( 'XA', 'Henry', 'Grant', '1', 'US', 'Miami'),
>
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Best regards,
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