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Old 05-12-2008
er_ashu er_ashu is offline
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Originally Posted by frozentin View Post
By looking at your 2 examples, why don't you;
[1] loop thru the contents of the 2nd file
[2] compare every individual line of the 2nd file with all the lines in the first
[3] print matched lines to file3
[4] After looping thru all the entries in file2, do a diff between file1 and file_matched
[5] parse the o/p of [4] to file4

Disclaimer: I couldn't script if my life depended on it, so can't really help you with that.
Thanks Frozentin but the issue here is that one of the file (file1 in this case ) has huge no of records and looping and comparing is taking a lot of time.

Is there any alternative way to do this with good performance.

Please advise.
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