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Old 07-20-2012
Power Compare two files Field by field and output the result in another file

Hi Friends,

Need Help. I have file1.txt as

File1.txt
Code:
|123|A|7267|Hyder|Cross|Sell|7801
|995|A|7051|2008|Lunar|New|Year|Promotion|7801
|996|A|7022|Q108|Targ|Prospect|&|SSCC|Savings|Promo|7801
|997|A|7182|Q1|Feb-Apr|08|Credit|ITA|PA|SBA|Campaign|7801

File2.txt
Code:
|123|A|7267|Hyder|Cross|Sell|7801
|995|A|7051|2008|Lunar|New|Year|Promotion|7801
|996|A|7021|Q108|Targ|Prospect|&|SSCC|Savings|Promo|7801
|997|B|7182|Q1|Feb-Apr|08|Credit|IT|PA|SBA|Campaign|7801
|999|A|6907|MSM|Near|affluent|7801

output:

Difference in Nth line Nth field and dispaly the fields

like in the above example there is a difference in 4th line 2nd field and there is a difference in 4th line 8th field.

Number of Mismatches=2
Differences are
4th line 2nd field
4th line 8th field

Please help Smilie I am very new to Shell scripting Smilie .

Last edited by Franklin52; 07-20-2012 at 04:44 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
# 2  
Old 07-20-2012
Try...
Code:
paste -d '|' File1.txt File2.txt | awk -F '|' '{c=NF/2;for(i=1;i<=c;i++)if($i!=$(i+c))printf "line %-5s field %s\n",NR,i}'

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# 3  
Old 07-20-2012
@Ygor: Did you notice "|" at the beginning of every line?
# 4  
Old 07-20-2012
@ygor : Thanks for the quick response. I got the answer but i am getting one count extra than the exact output .

Expected Output :

4th line 2nd field
4th line 8th field

Actual Output :

4th line 3nd field
4th line 9th field

Please help in this .. I tried but i am not getting the exact out.

Thanks in advance.

Note : we have "|" at the beginning of every line.
# 5  
Old 07-20-2012
Just use i-1 instead of i Smilie
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Old 07-20-2012
Thanks So much Pikk45 Smilie I have just joined the forum to learn things in unix shell scripting and you pepole helping a lot .. Thanks again @ygor and Pikka45 Smilie Smilie
# 7  
Old 07-20-2012
What I did is just a solution that anyone can give!! the advisable thing is to learn what that line does exactly!!

Learn bit by bit Smilie
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