Combining Two fixed width columns to a variable length file

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi, I have two files.

File1:

File1 contains two fixed width columns ID of 15 characters length and Name is of 100 characters length.

ID Name
1-43<<11 spaces>>Swapna<<94 spaces>>
1-234<<10 spaces>>Mani<<96 spaces>>
1-3456<<9 spaces>>Kapil<<95 spaces>>

File2:

File2 contains two fixed width columns ID of 15 characters length and Name is of 80 characters length.

ID Place
1-3456<<10 spaces>>Boston<<74 spaces>>
1-43<<11 spaces>>London<<74spaces>>

I need an output file of variable length file as follows

Output:

The Output file should contain the matched records of both File1 and File2 based on ID column.

Id Name
1-43<<1 space>>Swapna
1-234
1-3456<<1 space>>Kapil

Thanks in Advance.

2

Try this:

awk 'NR==FNR{a[$1]=$2;next}{print $1, a[$1]}' File1 File2

Regards

3

Thanks for the reply......I have tried by giving the command...............

awk 'NR==FNR{a[$1]=$2;next}{print $1, a[$1]}' File1 File2

or

nawk 'NR==FNR{a[$1]=$2;next}{print $1, a[$1]}' File1 File2

But Iam getting the output as

Id Name
1-43<<1 space>>Swapna
1-3456<<1 space>>Kapil

But I need output as

Id Name
1-43<<1 space>>Swapna
1-234
1-3456<<1 space>>Kapil

4 
awk '
NR==FNR{a[$1]=$2;next}
a[$1]{print $1, $2;next}
{print $1}' File2 File1

Regards

5

Thanks Franklin...... I got the desired output By giving the following connamd..........

nawk 'NR==FNR{a[$1]=$2;next} a[$1]{print $1, $2;next}{print $1}' file2 file1 > file3

Thanks Once again..............