1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

See my other post on sdiff .... I don't think sdiff is able to do what I want. The 'comm' command does what I need and works fine as far as the logic and results. The problem I'm having is with the output format, it outputs 3 columns of data, but because of the way it starts each line... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have issue with "comm " command file-1 ---- l65059 l65407 l68607 l68810 l69143 l71310 l72918 l73146 l73273 l76411 file-2 ----- (8 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, I need help in comm command , I am having 2 files . I have to display the common line in the two file only onnce and i have to also display the non common line as well. tmpcut1 -- First file cat tmpcut1 smstr_303000_O_432830_... f_c2_queue_sys30.sys30 RUNNING 10 1000... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to check-in a repository to svn -- but the import is failing because some files waaaay down deep in some graphics-library folder are using unicode characters in the file name - which are masked using the ls command but picked up when piping output to more: # ls -l 1914* -rwxrwxr-x 1... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

When comparing several files is there a way to find values unique to each file? File1 a b c d File2 a b t File 3 a (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

could some one please explain with examples how comm -12 & comm -3 works. I am confused with manual page, Thankyou. (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, We are receiving an XML file in Unix which has some special characters between tags like '^' etc <Tag> 1e^O7f%<2304e.$d8f57e8^Bf-&e.^Zh7/327e^O7 </Tag> We need to remove all special characters like ^ ones and also any '&' or '<' or '>' being sent within the start and close tags i.e.... (6 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello , I am trying to get contents which are only present in a.csv ,so using comm -23 cat a.csv | sort > a.csv cat b.csv | sort > b.csv comm -23 a.csv b.csv > c.csv. a.csv SKU COUNTRY CURRENCY PRICE_LIST_TYPE LIST_PRICE_EFFECTIVE_DATE TG430ZA ZA USD DF ... (4 Replies)

9. Linux

The manual does not cover this very well. What do the following compares will do ? 1) comm -13 file1 file2: will it display what is in file2 not in file1? 2) comm -23 file1 file2: will it display what in 1 but not in 2 ? Thanks (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all , I have two files a.txt and b.txt which have same content . They contain data that is fetched from database through a java program. When I delete a line in a.txt and run the below command comm -13 a.txt b.txt I am not getting the expected result i.e. the line i deleted from... (5 Replies)