Hi all,
I have got a problem while comparing 2 text files and the result should contains the unique values(Non repeatable).
For eg:
file1.txt
1
2
3
4
file2.txt
2
3
So after comaping the above 2 files I should get only 1 and 4 as the output. Pls help me out. (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a huge csv file with the following format of data,
Num SNPs, 549997
Total SNPs,555352
Num Samples, 157
SNP, SampleID, Allele1, Allele2
A001,AB1,A,A
A002,AB1,A,A
A003,AB1,A,A
...
...
...
I would like to write out a list of unique SNP (column 1). Could you... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Is there a way to get NON unique lines from 2 or more concatenated files?
Basically I have several files which are very similar with the exception of few lines and I want to find out which lines are different in each file. Very simple example is
file1 contains:
1
2
3
4
5file2... (122 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a very huge file (4GB) which has duplicate lines. I want to delete duplicate lines leaving unique lines. Sort, uniq, awk '!x++' are not working as its running out of buffer space.
I dont know if this works : I want to read each line of the File in a For Loop, and want to... (16 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to compare 2 files, and have a return code write to a file.
regardless of the files contents are the same the code should be writing to a file (if both files contents are same then return code 0).
A simple example will be great :)
Thanks (3 Replies)
hi
i have used comm -13 <(sort 1.txt) <(sort 2.txt) option to get the unique lines that are present in file 2 but not in file 1. but some how i am getting the entire file 2. i would expect few but not all uncommon lines fro my dat. is there anything wrong with the way i used the command?
my... (1 Reply)
hi
my problem is little complicated one. i have 2 files which appear like this
file 1
abbsss:aa:22:34:as akl abc 1234
mkilll:as:ss:23:qs asc abc 0987
mlopii:cd:wq:24:as asd abc 7866
file2
lkoaa:as:24:32:sa alk abc 3245
lkmo:as:34:43:qs qsa abc 0987
kloia:ds:45:56:sa acq abc 7805
i... (5 Replies)
Hello I'm having a little difficulty in writing a shell script for a few simple tasks.
First I have two files "file1.txt" and "file2.txt" and I want to read and compare the last line of each file. The files look like this.
File1.txt
File2.txt
After comparing the two lines I would... (2 Replies)
Hello Everyone!
I have updated the first post so that my intentions are easier to understand, and also attached sample files (post #18).
I have over 500 text files in a directory. Over 1 GB of data. The data in those files is organised in lines:
My intention is to return one line per... (23 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to script the below, but I am not very good at it :(
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
1. read all files in the directory in strings
strings *.*
2. in each file, for each line that contains "ABCD", store characters located at position 521 and 522 of this line... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: clippertm
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
comm
comm(1) User Commands comm(1)NAME
comm - select or reject lines common to two files
SYNOPSIS
comm [-123] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
The comm utility reads file1 and file2, which must be ordered in the current collating sequence, and produces three text columns as output:
lines only in file1; lines only in file2; and lines in both files.
If the input files were ordered according to the collating sequence of the current locale, the lines written will be in the collating
sequence of the original lines. If not, the results are unspecified.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-1 Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file1.
-2 Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file2.
-3 Suppresses the output column of lines duplicated in file1 and file2.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
file1 A path name of the first file to be compared. If file1 is -, the standard input is used.
file2 A path name of the second file to be compared. If file2 is -, the standard input is used.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of comm when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Printing a list of utilities specified by files
If file1, file2, and file3 each contain a sorted list of utilities, the command
example% comm -23 file1 file2 | comm -23 - file3
prints a list of utilities in file1 not specified by either of the other files. The entry:
example% comm -12 file1 file2 | comm -12 - file3
prints a list of utilities specified by all three files. And the entry:
example% comm -12 file2 file3 | comm -23 -file1
prints a list of utilities specified by both file2 and file3, but not specified in file1.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of comm: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE,
LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 All input files were successfully output as specified.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), sort(1), uniq(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.10 3 Mar 2004 comm(1)