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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Comparing lines of two different files Post 302522784 by Shell_Life on Monday 16th of May 2011 03:15:12 PM
Old 05-16-2011
Here is one way of doing it:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
typeset -i mCnt
while read mLine
do
  mOutLine=""
  for mFld in ${mLine}
  do
    if [[ "${mOutLine}" = "" ]]; then
      mOutLine=${mFld}
      mTag=${mFld}
      continue
    fi
    mCnt=$(egrep -c "${mTag}.*${mFld}" target_file)
    if [[ ${mCnt} -ne 0 ]]; then
      mOutLine=${mOutLine}' '${mFld}
    fi
  done
  echo $mOutLine
done < source_file

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME
shells - shell database SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser- shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root. A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored. The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/pfcsh, /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list. Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)). FILES
/etc/shells lists shells on system SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4) SunOS 5.10 4 Jun 2001 shells(4)
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