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Operating Systems AIX Help with looping a file and grepping a string Post 302511731 by lowprofile on Thursday 7th of April 2011 12:10:09 PM
Old 04-07-2011
Java Help with looping a file and grepping a string
I have 2 files: fileA and fileB.

content of fileA
---------------
admin.teacher is in new york;
admin.mason is in new york;
admin.driver is in new york city;
user.trucker is in hartford;
admin.developer is in new york state;

content of fileB
----------------
admin.teacher is in chigago;
user.teacher is in new york;
admin.mason is in new york;
admin.developer is in new york state
admin.plumber is in new york;
admin.driver is in new york city;
user.trucker is in hartford;
admin.nurse is in new york state;
admin.teacher is in new york
user.painter is in new york;


This is what I am trying to achieve:
I would like to loop through fileB and if any member in fileA
is found in fileB then that line in fileB will be commented with (--)
I am looking for a neat script to do this for me. thx.

This means that the resulting file to look like:

FileC
----------
admin.teacher is in chigago;
user.teacher is in new york;
--admin.mason is in new york;
--admin.developer is in new york state
admin.plumber is in new york;
--admin.driver is in new york city;
--user.trucker is in hartford;
admin.nurse is in new york state;
--admin.teacher is in new york
user.painter is in new york;
 

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time-admin

time-admin(1)							   User Commands						     time-admin(1)

NAME

       time-admin - Basic configuration of system time, date, timezone and NTP client.

SYNOPSIS

       time-admin [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       time-admin  enables  the  user  to  configure the default timezone and current date/time on the system. It also enables the user to turn on
       auto-synchronisation of this using NTP.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       gnome-std-options	       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa-
				       tion.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Running the main application.

       example% time-admin

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/time-admin	       Executable for time and date configuration.

       /var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/time
				       Backup directory for files that are modified.

       /var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/time
				       Debug logs can be found under here.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-system-tools	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Uncommitted		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       users-admin(1), shares-admin(1), services-admin(1), network-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), rtc(1M), ntpdate(1M), xntpd(1M), attributes(5)

NOTES

       Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    6 Nov 2006							     time-admin(1)
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