Perhaps I had more luck -- I didn't have to wait so long for a definitive answer. On 2 different machines, I had 2 large, similar, but different files of size about 1 GB. One machine had 2.5 GB memory, the other 1 GB. When I used diff, I got the message:
So I sorted the files and ran:
On one machine the elapsed time for comm was 3 minutes (2.8 GHz Xeon, RHEL 4), and on the other, 2.5 minutes (AMD-64, 3000+, Debian sarge).
You may need to glance at man comm to see what it is doing -- it does require sorted input files, and then presents unique entries in both files.
Hello all,
Can anyone help me with this.
There are two files and I have to match the second file records with that of first and if matched, print the output in two fies, one containing the matched records and other containing the rest.
Here is the example.
File1
"111",erter,"00000", ... (4 Replies)
hi
I have 2 files to comapre ,in file a sible column it is numbers,in file b2 numbers and other values with coma separated.
i want compare numbers in file a with file b,and the out put put should be in C with numbers in both file a and b along with other columns of file b.
i used folowing... (7 Replies)
I have two text files which have records of thousand rows. Each row is having around 40 columns. Each column is tab delimited. Each row is delimited by newline character.
My requirement is to find for each row i need to find whether any column is different between the two files. For each row i... (8 Replies)
Hi i have 2 csv files a.csv and b.csv with the same number of columns and a list of values in both of it. Each and every individual value in both the files need to compared and if it matches then print correct in a new csv file otherwise print Incorrect
eg
a.csv
1,12/27/2007,Reward,$10.00... (5 Replies)
now i have a different file zoo.txt with content
123|zoo
234|natan
456|don
and file rick.txt with contents
123|dog|pie|pep
123|tail|see|newt
456|som|sin|sim
234|pay|rat|cat
i want to look for lines in file zoo.txt column1 that has same corresponding lines in column 1 of... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
i have two .csv files. i need to compare those two files and if there is any difference that should be moved into third .csv file.
example,
org.csv and dup.csv
when we compare those two files org.csv and dup.csv. if there is any change in dup.csv. it should be capture in third... (7 Replies)
Hello, I am trying to compare 2 files and get only the new lines as output. Note that new lines can be anywhere in the file and not necessarily at the bottom of the file.
I have made the following progress so far.
/home/aa>cat old.txt
0001 732 A
0002 732 C
0005 732 D... (7 Replies)
Dear All,
I would really appreciate if you can help me to resolve this file comparison
I have two files:
file1:
chr start end ID gene_name
chr1 2020 3030 1 test1
chr1 900 5000 2 test1
chr2 5000 8000 3 test2
chr3 6000 12000 4 test3
chr3 6000 15000 5 test3
file2:... (2 Replies)
HI,
I have two files and contains many Fields with | (pipe) delimitor, wanted to compare both the files and get only unmatched perticular fields. this i wanted to use in shell scriting.
ex:
first.txt
111 |abc| 230| hbc231 |bbb |210 |bbd405 |ghc |555 |cgv
second.txt
111 |abc |230 |hbc231... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: prawinmca
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cmp
CMP(1) BSD General Commands Manual CMP(1)NAME
cmp -- compare two files
SYNOPSIS
cmp [-l | -s | -x] [-hz] file1 file2 [skip1 [skip2]]
DESCRIPTION
The cmp utility compares two files of any type and writes the results to the standard output. By default, cmp is silent if the files are the
same; if they differ, the byte and line number at which the first difference occurred is reported.
Bytes and lines are numbered beginning with one.
The following options are available:
-h Do not follow symbolic links.
-l Print the byte number (decimal) and the differing byte values (octal) for each difference.
-s Print nothing for differing files; return exit status only.
-x Like -l but prints in hexadecimal and using zero as index for the first byte in the files.
-z For regular files compare file sizes first, and fail the comparison if they are not equal.
The optional arguments skip1 and skip2 are the byte offsets from the beginning of file1 and file2, respectively, where the comparison will
begin. The offset is decimal by default, but may be expressed as a hexadecimal or octal value by preceding it with a leading ``0x'' or
``0''.
EXIT STATUS
The cmp utility exits with one of the following values:
0 The files are identical.
1 The files are different; this includes the case where one file is identical to the first part of the other. In the latter case, if the
-s option has not been specified, cmp writes to standard error that EOF was reached in the shorter file (before any differences were
found).
>1 An error occurred.
SEE ALSO diff(1), diff3(1)STANDARDS
The cmp utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible. The -h, -x, and -z options are extensions to the standard.
HISTORY
A cmp command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.
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