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join — Join lines of two sorted files on a common field. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/co
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How to use the
join command: Join lines of two sorted files on a common field. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/join-invocation.html>.Solution
join — Join lines of two sorted files on a common field. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/join-invocation.html>.Join two files on the first (default) field:
join {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}Join two files using a comma (instead of a space) as the field separator:
join -t ',' {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}Join field3 of file1 with field1 of file2:
join -1 {{3}} -2 {{1}} {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}Produce a line for each unpairable line for file1:
join -a {{1}} {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}Join a file from
stdin:cat {{path/to/file1}} | join - {{path/to/file2}}Code Snippets
Join two files on the first (default) field
join {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}Join two files using a comma (instead of a space) as the field separator
join -t ',' {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}Join field3 of file1 with field1 of file2
join -1 {{3}} -2 {{1}} {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}Produce a line for each unpairable line for file1
join -a {{1}} {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}Join a file from `stdin`
cat {{path/to/file1}} | join - {{path/to/file2}}Context
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