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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support to find difference between two files Post 302357615 by bakunin on Wednesday 30th of September 2009 08:58:05 AM
Old 09-30-2009
If you know the number of records (you said they vary, but maybe the number is known somehow), then simply "tail" the last <n> records, where <n> is the number of records (i suppose records to be lines):

Code:
tail -<n> /path/to/newfile

If the records are multilined but with a fixed number of <x> lines for each record:

Code:
tail -$((<x>*<n>)) /path/to/newfile

If the records for the present day are not all stored already you still might still know the number of records from the beginning which you have to filter out, leaving the non-filtered records as new. Example: 3 records per day, today is the 10th day of the month. You will have to filter the first 9 days (meaning 9*3=27 lines) and everything left will be from today.

Code:
sed '1,'"$((<number_of_the_day-1>*<x>))"'d' /path/to/newfile

I hope this helps.

bakunin
Last edited by bakunin; 09-30-2009 at 10:13 AM..
 

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ldns-compare-zones

ldns-compare-zones(1)					      General Commands Manual					     ldns-compare-zones(1)

NAME

       ldns-compare-zones - read and compare two zonefiles and print differences

SYNOPSIS

       ldns-compare-zones [-c] [-i] [-d] [-z] [-s] ZONEFILE1 ZONEFILE2

DESCRIPTION

       ldns-compare-zones reads two DNS zone files and prints number of differences.
       Output is formated to:
	       +NUM_INS        -NUM_DEL        ~NUM_CHG

       The  major  comparison  is  based on the owner name. If an owner name is present in zonefile 1, but not in zonefile 2, the resource records
       with this owner name are considered deleted, and counted as NUM_DEL. If an owner name is present in zonefile 2, but not in zonefile 1,  the
       resource  records with this owner name are considered inserted, and counted as NUM_INS. If an owner name is present in both, but there is a
       difference in the amount or content of the records, these are considered changed, and counted as NUM_CHG.

OPTIONS

       -c     Print resource records whose owner names are in both zone files, but with different resource records. (a.k.a. changed)

       -i     Print resource records whose owner names are present only in ZONEFILE2 (a.k.a. inserted)

       -d     Print resource records whose owner names are present only in ZONEFILE1 (a.k.a. deleted)

       -a     Print all changes. Specifying this option is the same as specifying -c -i amd -d.

       -z     Suppress zone sorting; this option is not recommended; it can cause records to be incorrectly marked as changed,	depending  of  the
	      nature of the changes.

       -s     Do  not  exclude the SOA record from the comparison.  The SOA record may then show up as changed due to a new serial number.  Off by
	      default since you may be interested to know if (other zone apex elements) have changed.

       -h     Show usage and exit

       -v     Show the version and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by Ondej Sury <ondrej@sury.org> for CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o. (czech domain registry)

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <ondrej@sury.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2005 CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.. This is free software. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A	PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.

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