Sorting lines in one file given the order in another file
Use awk
to put the line number from file2
as an extra column in front of file1
. Sort the result by that column. Then remove that prefix column
awk 'FNR == NR { lineno[$1] = NR; next}
{print lineno[$1], $0;}' file2 file1 | sort -k 1,1n | cut -d' ' -f2-