I am writting file comparison Utility and I have encountered such a senario where there are 2 files such as follows-
here the lines of code are exactly the same except for the mismatch in extra blank lines in the 2nd file. I have tried both diff and cmp commands with various options and also tried the sum command , but both these files are never shown identical. Can anyone please tell me if its possible to consider them equal by ingoring the blank lines/white spaces while comparing them?
Can someone help me with the following 2 objectives?
1) The following command is just an example. It gets a list of all print jobs. From there I am trying to extract the printer name. It works with the following command:
lpstat -W "completed" -o | awk -F- '{ print $1}'
Problem is, I want... (6 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I have 2 files A and B . I want to compare the 3rd line of file A and B .
(I dont want to compare the 2 files, using diff or cmp). I just want to know whether 3rd line of A matches the 3 rd line of B. Can anybody share their knowledge on the same?
Thanks ,
Vijaya (12 Replies)
Hi All,
I am a newbie to Shell scripting. Please help me with the Following problem,
1. I have two files with the same name in different locations in the same machine.
Eg: /root/testfolder/a ---- location 1
/tmp/testfolder/a ----- location 2
2. I want to compare the files in... (5 Replies)
Hi Guru's , I have a whole bunch of files in /var/tmp that i need to strip any blank lines from, so ive written the following script to identify the lines (which works perfectly).. but i wanted to know, how can I actually strip the identified lines from the actual source files ??
my... (11 Replies)
Hello all,
I always found help for my problems using the search option, but this time my request is too specific. I have two files that I want to compare. File1 is the index and File2 contains the data:
File1:
chr1 protein_coding exon 500 600 . + . gene_id "20532";... (0 Replies)
Hi,
Consider a file named "testfile"
The contents of file are as below
first line added for test
second line added for test
third line added for test
fourth line added for test
fifth line added for test (5 Replies)
Hello,
Please help me with this problem if you have a solution.
I have two files:
<file1> : In each line, first word is an Id and then other words that belong to this Id
piMN-1 abc pqr xyz py12
niLM y12 FY4 pqs
fiRLym F12 kite red
<file2> : same as file1, but can have extra lds... (3 Replies)
Hi All
Need Help
I have a file with the below format (ABC.TXT) :
®¿¿ABCDHEJJSJJ|XCBJSKK01|M|7348974982790
HDFLJDKJSKJ|KJALKSD02|M|7378439274898
KJHSAJKHHJJ|LJDSAJKK03|F|9898982039999
(cont......)
I need to write a script where it will check for : blank lines (between rows,before... (6 Replies)