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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers sort and compare files Post 302341449 by zaxxon on Thursday 6th of August 2009 03:10:58 AM
Old 08-06-2009
This is a bit abstract. To sort you use the command sort. For comparing you can use diff, comm, cmp, grep -f ..., awk, and maybe some more.
Unless you present us a concrete example of your 2 input files and the desired output I recommend to play around with those commands up there and/or use the advanced search function of this forum here since this is a question that came up relativ quite often.

When posting code, data or logs make sure you use CODE-tags, ty.

Last edited by zaxxon; 08-06-2009 at 04:18 AM..
 

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ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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