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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk Comparison of 2 specific files Post 302290554 by hhoosscchhii on Monday 23rd of February 2009 03:27:03 PM
Old 02-23-2009
Something special
Thanks again guys for your response, but the files I would like to compare have something special to it.

Like I already mentioned, both files have the same layout:

Header
Record1
Record2
...
Footer

The header is always different, so nothing to be focused on.
The records first 25 signs are always different too.
Now the important part. After sign 25 of each record I would like to start comparing with the corresponding record in the second file.

if record1.file1 after sign25 equals record1.file2 after sign25
set return value 0
else set return value 1

and so on for all remaining records.

Note: I can't do anything about the format of the file. I get it that why and I have to work with it.

Your help would be very much appreciated

Thx,


Sebastian
 

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