Actually the input files are not correctly formatted , to format my files i have done below steps
1) my input files(file1,file2) has <=80 columns
so i increased my default columns in putty terminal to 180 by reducing the font and increasing system resolution since set COLUMNS was not working
2) since sdiff was working good for checking the differences and its formatting the data in input files to ignore spaces..etc
similarly i swapped the files and got the (file2) to sdiff_file2
i have checked the output of both files , it contains "(" character at column 83
To cut the character at 83 , i used colrm
then to eliminate ^M ,
finally after this steps i got the formatted text in Tr_file1 and Tr_file2
Now i sent the Tr_file1 and Tr_file2 to awk script you gave and it worked perfectly !!!
Question : please suggest me any better ways than my above steps for formatting files ( bulk files)
The only Issue:
The output_file2 contains 82 Columns fixed ( because we used cut 82) but the actual file1 ( without formatted ) does not contain any spaces
for example:
line1 code is for 10 columns in file1 ( not formatted one), its fixed to 10 but in output_file2 its 82
is there anyway to reduces the spaces of code in output_file2 to restrict to show only the columns it used not 82 for using 10 character (columns ).
hi
i need to select a few columns of two txt files and write it to a new file. there is one common field for both of these files.
plz help me in this
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I have a column in 2 different files which i want to compare, and output the results to a different file. The columns are in different positions in those 2 files.
File 1 the column is in position 10-15
File 2 the column is in position 15-20
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Hello everybody
Looking for help in comparing two files in Linux(files are big 800MB each).
Example:-
File1 has below data
$ cat file1
5,6,3
2.1.4
1,1,1
8,9,1
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$ cat file2
5,6,3
8,9,8
1,2,1
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Hello everybody
Looking for help in comparing two files in Linux(files are big 800MB each).
Example:-
File1 has below data
$ cat file1
5,6,3
2.1.4
1,1,1
8,9,1
File2 has below data
$ cat file2
5,6,3
8,9,8
1,2,1
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LEARN ABOUT V7
diff
DIFF(1) General Commands Manual DIFF(1)NAME
diff - differential file comparator
SYNOPSIS
diff [ -efbh ] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
Diff tells what lines must be changed in two files to bring them into agreement. If file1 (file2) is `-', the standard input is used. If
file1 (file2) is a directory, then a file in that directory whose file-name is the same as the file-name of file2 (file1) is used. The
normal output contains lines of these forms:
n1 a n3,n4
n1,n2 d n3
n1,n2 c n3,n4
These lines resemble ed commands to convert file1 into file2. The numbers after the letters pertain to file2. In fact, by exchanging `a'
for `d' and reading backward one may ascertain equally how to convert file2 into file1. As in ed, identical pairs where n1 = n2 or n3 = n4
are abbreviated as a single number.
Following each of these lines come all the lines that are affected in the first file flagged by `<', then all the lines that are affected
in the second file flagged by `>'.
The -b option causes trailing blanks (spaces and tabs) to be ignored and other strings of blanks to compare equal.
The -e option produces a script of a, c and d commands for the editor ed, which will recreate file2 from file1. The -f option produces a
similar script, not useful with ed, in the opposite order. In connection with -e, the following shell program may help maintain multiple
versions of a file. Only an ancestral file ($1) and a chain of version-to-version ed scripts ($2,$3,...) made by diff need be on hand. A
`latest version' appears on the standard output.
(shift; cat $*; echo '1,$p') | ed - $1
Except in rare circumstances, diff finds a smallest sufficient set of file differences.
Option -h does a fast, half-hearted job. It works only when changed stretches are short and well separated, but does work on files of
unlimited length. Options -e and -f are unavailable with -h.
FILES
/tmp/d?????
/usr/lib/diffh for -h
SEE ALSO cmp(1), comm(1), ed(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 for no differences, 1 for some, 2 for trouble.
BUGS
Editing scripts produced under the -e or -f option are naive about creating lines consisting of a single `.'.
DIFF(1)