How to find the difference between two files using multiple conditions? - awk

Question

I have two files file1.txt and file2.txt like below -
cat file1.txt
2016-07-20-22 4343250019 1003116 001 data45343 25-JUL-16 11-MAR-16 1 N 0 0 N
2016-06-20-22 654650018 1003116 001 data45343 25-JUL-17 11-MAR-16 1 N 0 0 N
cat file2.txt
2016-07-20-22|9|1003116|001|data45343|25-JUL-16 11-MAR-16|1|N|0|0|N|hello|table|one
2016-06-20-22|8|1003116|001|data45343|25-JUL-17 11-MAR-16|1|N|0|0|N|hi|this|kill
2017-06-22-22|8|1003116|001|data45333|25-JUL-17 11-MAR-16|1|N|0|0|N|kill|boll|one
Requirement is to fetch the records which are not available in
file1.txt using below condition.
file1.txt file2.txt
col1(date) col1(Date)
col2(number: 4343250019 ) col2(last value of number: 9)
col3(number) col3(number)
col5(alphanumeric) col5(alphanumeric)
Expected Output :
2017-06-22-22|8|1003116|001|data45333|25-JUL-17 11-MAR-16|1|NULL|0|0|N|kill|boll|one
This output line doesn't available in file1.txt but available in
file2.txt after satisfying the matching criteria.
I was trying below steps to achieve this output -
###Replacing the space/tab from the file1.txt with pipe
awk '{print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10}' OFS="|" file1.txt > file1.txt1
### Looping on a combination of four column of file1.txt1 with combination of modified column of file2.txt and output in output.txt
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"} {a[$1FS$2FS$3FS$5];next} {(($1 FS substr($2,length($2),1) FS $3 FS $5) in a) print $0}' file2.txt file1.txt1 > output.txt
###And finally, replace the "N" from column 8th and put "NULL" if the value is "N".
awk -F'|' '{ gsub ("N","NULL",$8);print}' OFS="|" output.txt > output.txt1
What is the issue?
My 2nd operation is not working and I am trying to put all 3 operations in one operation.

Answer 1

awk -F'[|]|[[:blank:]]+' 'FNR==NR{E[$1($2%10)$3$5]++;next}!($1$2$3$5 in E)' file1.txt file2.txt
and your sample output is wrong, it should be (last field if different: data45333)
2016-07-20-22|9|1003116|001|data45333|25-JUL-16 11-MAR-16|1|N|0|0|N|hello|table|one
2017-06-22-22|8|1003116|001|data45343|25-JUL-17 11-MAR-16|1|N|0|0|N|kill|boll|one
Commented code
# separator for both file first with blank, second with `|`
awk -F'[|]|[[:blank:]]+' '
# for first file
FNR==NR{
# create en index entry based on the 4 field. The forat of filed allow to use them directly without separator (univoq)
E[ $1 ( $2 % 10 ) $3 $5 ]++
# for this line (file) don't go further
next
}
# for next file lines
# if not in the index list of entry, print the line (default action)
! ( ( $1 $2 $3 $5 ) in E ) { print }
' file1.txt file2.txt

Answer 2

Input
$ cat f1
2016-07-20-22 4343250019 1003116 001 data45343 25-JUL-16 11-MAR-16 1 N 0 0 N
2016-06-20-22 654650018 1003116 001 data45343 25-JUL-17 11-MAR-16 1 N 0 0 N
$ cat f2
2016-07-20-22|9|1003116|001|data45343|25-JUL-16 11-MAR-16|1|N|0|0|N|hello|table|one
2016-06-20-22|8|1003116|001|data45343|25-JUL-17 11-MAR-16|1|N|0|0|N|hi|this|kill
2017-06-22-22|8|1003116|001|data45333|25-JUL-17 11-MAR-16|1|N|0|0|N|kill|boll|one
Output
$ awk 'FNR==NR{a[$1,substr($2,length($2)),$3,$5];next}!(($1,$2,$3,$5) in a)' f1 FS="|" f2
2017-06-22-22|8|1003116|001|data45333|25-JUL-17 11-MAR-16|1|N|0|0|N|kill|boll|one
Explanation
awk ' # call awk.
FNR==NR{ # This is true when awk reads first file
a[$1,substr($2,length($2)),$3,$5] # array a where index being $1(field1), last char from $2, $3 and $5
next # stop processing go to next line
}
!(($1,$2,$3,$5) in a) # here we check index $1,$2,$3,$5 exists in array a by reading file f2
' f1 FS="|" f2 # Read f1 then
# set FS and then read f2
FNR==NR If the number of records read so far in the current file
is equal to the number of records read so far across all files,
condition which can only be true for the first file read.
a[$1,substr($2,length($2)),$3,$5] populate array "a" such that the
indexed by the first
field, last char of second field, third field and fifth field from
current record of file1
next Move on to the next record so we don't do any processing
intended for records from the second file.
!(($1,$2,$3,$5) in a) IF the array a index constructed from the
fields ($1,$2,$3,$5) of the current record of file2 does not exist
in array a, we get boolean true (! Called Logical NOT Operator. It is used to reverse the logical state of its operand. If a condition is true, then Logical NOT operator will make it false and vice versa.) so awk does default operation print $0 from file2
f1 FS="|" f2 read file1(f1), set field separator "|" after
reading first file, and then read file2(f2)
--edit--
When filesize is huge around 60GB(900 millions rows), its not a good
idea to process the file two times. 3rd operation - (replace "N" with
"NULL" from col - 8 ""awk -F'|' '{ gsub ("N","NULL",$8);print}'
OFS="|" output.txt
$ awk 'FNR==NR{
a[$1,substr($2,length($2)),$3,$5];
next
}
!(($1,$2,$3,$5) in a){
sub(/N/,"NULL",$8);
print
}' f1 FS="|" OFS="|" f2
2017-06-22-22|8|1003116|001|data45333|25-JUL-17 11-MAR-16|1|NULL|0|0|N|kill|boll|one

Answer 3

You can try this awk:
awk -F'[ |]*' 'NR==FNR{su=substr($2,length($2),1); a[$1":"su":"$3":"$5]=1;next} !a[$1":"$2":"$3":"$5]{print $0}' f1 f2
Here,
a[] - an associative array
$1":"su":"$3":"$5 - this forms key for an array index. su is last digit of field $2 (su=substr($2,length($2),1)). Then, assigning an 1 as value for this key.
NR==FNR{...;next} - this block works for processing f1.
Update:
awk 'NR==FNR{$2=substr($2,length($2),1); a[$1":"$2":"$3":"$5]=1;next} !a[$1":"$2":"$3":"$5]{gsub(/^N$/,"NULL",$8);print}' f1 FS="|" OFS='|' f2