I have two sequential files, FILE-1 and FILE-2.
FILE-1 contains 2 columns(A,B) and FILE-2 contains 3 columns
(C,D,E).I want an output file, FILE-3 which has all five
columns with duplicates eliminated from column A.

Answer Posted / gupta

Merging of file in this manner can be done by Splice function of ICETOOL, and also duplicates can be removed.this is the easiest way..

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