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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting search a regular expression and match in two (or more files) using bash Post 302540433 by TheTransporter on Wednesday 20th of July 2011 02:54:58 PM
Old 07-20-2011
Thanks for the quick reply, Bartus! However, I should emphasize that FIND1 , FIND2 etc are not like that. For example they can be ABC1D, RTGQ1 etc. So, a random combination of numberals and letters...

Therefore, the only common characteristic between the files is the seperation of each entry and within the entry what is after the XXXXXX_ , which is composed of 5 characters and this should match between the entries from each file...

Thanks again for the help!
 

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grpck(1B)                                            SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands                                            grpck(1B)

NAME
grpck - check group database entries SYNOPSIS
/etc/grpck [filename] DESCRIPTION
The grpck utility checks that a file in group(4) does not contain any errors; it checks the /etc/group file by default. FILES
/etc/group ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
groups(1), group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5) DIAGNOSTICS
Too many/few fields An entry in the group file does not have the proper number of fields. No group name The group name field of an entry is empty. Bad character(s) in group name The group name in an entry contains characters other than lower-case letters and digits. Invalid GID The group ID field in an entry is not numeric or is greater than 65535. Null login name A login name in the list of login names in an entry is null. Logname not found in password file A login name in the list of login names in an entry is not in the password file. Line too long A line (including the newline character) in the group file exceeds the maximum length of 512 characters. Duplicate logname entry A login name appears more than once in the list of login names for a group file entry. Out of memory The program cannot allocate memory in order to continue. Maximum groups exceeded for logname A login name's group membership exceeds the maximum, NGROUPS_MAX. SunOS 5.10 10 Jan 2000 grpck(1B)
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