[PLUG] natural join on text files
Russell Evans
russell-evans at uswest.net
Fri Mar 7 14:12:01 UTC 2003
Could you post some sample data?
Thank you
Russell
On 07 Mar 2003 13:48:37 -0800, Russell Senior said:
>
> I've got a text file which consists of lines of three space-delimited
> numbers. Each of these lines constitutes a key for "interesting"
> lines of a second text file. The first three fields in the second
> file in the "interesting" lines will match one of the lines in the
> first file. This is essentially a "natural join" operation from
> relational database land, but on text files.
>
> From a command line, what might you suggest to do this? Bonus points
> for avoiding Perl.
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