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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with file differences Post 302379441 by dsravan on Thursday 10th of December 2009 05:00:38 PM
Old 12-10-2009
Help with file differences

I have two huge files in the size of 1gb. They are produced by similar processes and the expected thing is that they should match in size and contents. I have produced both the files with the processes and they seem to be off only by few bytes.

Size file name
1634502037 Transfer_delta_reservation_file.txt
1634501922 delta_transfer_file.txt

I tried to see the differences with the diff and sdiff but both of them are showing everything as different. I checked the files manually for couple of records and they seem to match exactly. I couldn't find out why there is this small difference in bytes and if so where are this extra bytes coming from. Is there a way or a program to just show the differences in the file and their line numbers. I did the diff after sorting them. Please help.
 

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