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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers compare two text files in a good format Post 302294461 by ShawnMilo on Thursday 5th of March 2009 08:53:56 AM
Old 03-05-2009
Experiment with grep and fgrep (grep -f). Check out the man page for those options. Mix in a little "sort | uniq -u" and you should get something pretty workable.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

insanity-compare

GST-QA-SYSTEM(1)					     gst-qa-system User Manual						  GST-QA-SYSTEM(1)

NAME

       insanity-compare - program to compare two test results in database

SYNOPSIS

       insanity-compare {testrundbfile} {testrunid} {testrunid}

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the insanity-compare command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       insanity-compare is a program that can compare two test results by their testrunid.

SEE ALSO

       insanity-dumpresults(1), insanity-run(1)

AUTHOR

       Ying-Chun Liu <paul.liu@linaro.org>
	   Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011 Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1
       or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1.

insanity-compare						    12/26/2011							  GST-QA-SYSTEM(1)
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