Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:04:35 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Appropriate tool to do this task?
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On 17 Jul 2001, Mylo wrote:

> Working on a script in DOS where I'm parsing information in line by
> line from a file FILE1.TXT. As each line is processed I'm trying to
> find the equivalent string of text in a second file (FILE2.TXT).

You want Gawk.  Download and install v2gnu/gwk306b.zip.