1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I want to compare two files. All records in file 2 that are not in file 1 should be output to file 3. For example: file 1 123 1234 123456 file 2 123 2345 23456 file 3 should have 2345 23456 I have looked at diff, bdiff, cmp, comm, diff3 without any luck! (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I would like to run the diff command and recieve a little different output. I am on a linux machine. I am pretty new to shell scripting. So far my idea has shaped up to this, unworking, script. I would like file1: and file2: instead of the usual > or < output you recieve, diff | sed -e ... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Here is where I am at so far..... ------------------------- #!/bin/bash echo "Enter the output file name" read output_file echo "Enter the Orginal file Name" read write_file d= ' diff $write_file $output_file ' if $d = 1 ;then echo "files are not identical" else echo "they... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, svn diff does not work very well with 2 local folders, so I am trying to do this diff using diff locally. since there's a bunch of meta files in an svn directory, I want to do a diff that excludes everything EXCEPT *.java files. there seems to be only an --exclude option, so I'm not sure... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello - I have a small diff script that checks 2 directories. It reports the difference in count such as wc -l, and also names the different files. How should I get "ERROR: diff found . (host)" - when it actually finds a diff? This is how I have written: #!/bin/bash ... (10 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to create a script to compare 2 files and store the output in a 3rd file. This is how I do manually, but since I need to do this for about 150 files every week, I am trying to automate it using perl. diff -u file1 file2 > file3.patch For my script, - I have 2 files... (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have in the one folder file and directory that have same name. I need make diff from first directory where exists file in folder FOLDER/filename and second file where not exist folder, but FOLDER is filename. I use -N switch for create new file. Scripts report: Not a directory Sample:... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi ALL I have a shell script named setUP in which i am sourcing one variable like source var_name="CLASSPATH". When i call it as ./setUP, it does not set the var_name variable. But when i call it like . ./setUP then var_name is set up. What is the difference between this two calls? ... (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Guys i have 3 files, but i want to compare and diff only the 2nd column path=`/home/whois/doms` for i in `cat domain.tx` do whois $i| sed -n '/Registry Registrant ID:/,/Registrant Email:/p' > $path/$i.registrant whois $i| sed -n '/Registry Admin ID:/,/Admin Email:/p' > $path/$i.admin... (10 Replies)