05-29-2009
How to ignore the Spaces while string Comparison
I want to ignore the spaces while doing string comparison between two files.
Iam using "comm" command to compare the files.
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COMM(1) User Commands COMM(1)
NAME
comm - compare two sorted files line by line
SYNOPSIS
comm [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
DESCRIPTION
Compare sorted files FILE1 and FILE2 line by line.
With no options, produce three-column output. Column one contains lines unique to FILE1, column two contains lines unique to FILE2, and
column three contains lines common to both files.
-1 suppress lines unique to FILE1
-2 suppress lines unique to FILE2
-3 suppress lines that appear in both files
--check-order
check that the input is correctly sorted, even if all input lines are pairable
--nocheck-order
do not check that the input is correctly sorted
--output-delimiter=STR
separate columns with STR
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report comm bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for comm is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and comm programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'comm invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 COMM(1)