Question

I have a file like this file, and I am trying to verify one field of each line, and add some wording if that field has a duplicate earlier in the file.

\\FILE04\BUET-PCO;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CORP\ET\PROJECT CONTROL OFFICE;/FS7_150a/FILE04/BU-D/PROJECT CONTROL OFFICE;10000bytes;9888;;;
\\FILE12\BUAG-GOLDMINE$;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CAN\AGENCY\GOLDMINE;/FS3_150a/FILE12/BU/AGENCY/GOLDMINE;90000bytes;98834;;;
\\FILE12\BUGB-BUSINTEG$;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CAN\GB\BUSINTEG;/FS3_150a/FILE12/BU/GB/BUSINTEG;50000bytes;988822;;;
\\FILE12\BUGB-BUSINTEG$;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CAN\GB\BUSINTEG;/FS3_150a/FILE12/BU/GB/BUSINTEG;50000bytes;988822;other stuff;;

In my example Line #3 and #4 have the same physical path.
I would to have a script that could compare third field for example /FS3_150a/FILE12/BU/GB/BUSINTEG against the same file,
and if it found the exact match to print something like “same physical path as Line #” for both cases,

\\FILE04\BUET-PCO;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CORP\ET\PROJECT CONTROL OFFICE;/FS7_150a/FILE04/BU-D/PROJECT CONTROL OFFICE;10000bytes;9888;;;
\\FILE12\BUAG-GOLDMINE$;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CAN\AGENCY\GOLDMINE;/FS3_150a/FILE12/BU/AGENCY/GOLDMINE;90000bytes;98834;;;
\\FILE12\BUGB-BUSINTEG$;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CAN\GB\BUSINTEG;/FS3_150a/FILE12/BU/GB/BUSINTEG;50000bytes;988822;;;Same Physical Path as Line #4
\\FILE12\BUGB-BUSINTEG$;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CAN\GB\BUSINTEG;/FS3_150a/FILE12/BU/GB/BUSINTEG;50000bytes;988822;other stuff;; Same Physical Path as Line #3

Answer 1

Here’s one way using GNU awk. It is a little hackish, YMMV. Run like:

awk -f script.awk file.txt{,}

Contents of script.awk:

BEGIN {
    FS = ";"
}

FNR==NR {
    array[$3]=array[$3] "#" NR
    next
}

{
    if ($3 in array && array[$3] ~ /#.#/) {
        copy = array[$3]
        sub("#"FNR, "", copy)
        printf "%s Same Physical Path as Line as %s\n", $0, copy
    }
    else {
        print
    }
}

Results:

\\FILE04\BUET-PCO;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CORP\ET\PROJECT CONTROL OFFICE;/FS7_150a/FILE04/BU-D/PROJECT CONTROL OFFICE;10000bytes;9888;;;
\\FILE12\BUAG-GOLDMINE$;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CAN\AGENCY\GOLDMINE;/FS3_150a/FILE12/BU/AGENCY/GOLDMINE;90000bytes;98834;;;
\\FILE12\BUGB-BUSINTEG$;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CAN\GB\BUSINTEG;/FS3_150a/FILE12/BU/GB/BUSINTEG;50000bytes;988822;;; Same Physical Path as Line as #4
\\FILE12\BUGB-BUSINTEG$;\\SERVER24\DFS\SHARED\CAN\GB\BUSINTEG;/FS3_150a/FILE12/BU/GB/BUSINTEG;50000bytes;988822;other stuff;; Same Physical Path as Line as #3