I think I would still try GNU diff first. If it works, then you are done, if not, then something else can be tried, such as the suggestion from methyl.
If your files are described as:
then you may want to experiment with that.
Hi,
compare two .dat files and difference will be moved into separate file.if anybody having code for this please send asap. using diff command, i don't know how to write shell programming.
and my first file is like this including Header and trailer
10Ç20060323Ç01(Header)
01ÇIÇbabuÇ3000
01ÇIÇbaluÇ4000... (1 Reply)
Hi, Im trying to take a database backup. one of the files is 26 GB. I am using cp -pr to create a backup copy of the database. after the copying is complete, if i do du -hrs on the folders i saw a difference of 2GB.
The weird fact is that the BACKUP folder was 2 GB more than the original one!
... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a .txt file which has to be compared with a folder and print the difference to some other .txt file.
I did try with the diff command..i mean
diff /tmp/aaa/bbb.txt /space/aaa/bbb/
/***bbb.txt contains all the files names which may or may not exist in the folder bbb..so i need... (2 Replies)
Hi
I have two files in unix. I need to compare two files and print the differed lines in other file
Eg
file1
1111
2222
3333
file2
1111
2222
3333
4444
5555
newfile
4444
5555
Thanks In advance (3 Replies)
I have learned file comparison from my previous post here. Then, it is comparing the whole line. Now, i have a new problem.
I have two files with 3 columns separated with a "|". What i want to do is to compare the second and third column of file 1, and the second and third column of file 2. And... (4 Replies)
I have a 500 MB XML file from a FileMaker database export, it's formatted horribly (no line breaks at all). The node structure is basically
<FMPXMLRESULT>
<METADATA>
<FIELD att="............." id="..."/>
</METADATA>
<RESULTSET FOUND="1763457">
<ROW att="....." etc="....">
... (16 Replies)
Hi all
i want to write program with shell script that able compare two file content and if one of lines of file have # at the first of string or nothing find same string in one of two file . remove the line in second file that have not the string in first file. for example:
file... (2 Replies)
Good morning all,
I have a problem that is one step beyond a standard awk compare.
I would like to compare three files which have several thousand records against a fourth file. All of them have a value in each row that is identical, and one value in each of those rows which may be duplicated... (1 Reply)
Hello, my first thread here.
I've been searching and fiddling around for about a week and I cannot find a solution.:confused:
I have been converting all of my home videos to HEVC and sometimes the files end up smaller and sometimes they don't. I am currently comparing all the video files... (5 Replies)
I have two files:
smw:/working/iso_testing # cat a
QConvergeConsoleCLI-1.1.03-49.x86_64.rpm
aaa_base-13.2+git20140911.61c1681-1.3.i586.rpm
acpica-20140724-2.1.2.i586.rpm
test.rpm
smw:/working/iso_testing # cat b
QConvergeConsoleCLI-1.1.03-49.x86_64.rpm... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: jedlund21
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
bdiff
bdiff(1) General Commands Manual bdiff(1)NAME
bdiff - Finds differences in large files
SYNOPSIS
bdiff file1 file2 [number] [-s]
bdiff - file2 [number] [-s]
bdiff file1 - [number] [-s]
The bdiff command compares file1 and file2 and writes information about their differing lines to standard output. If either filename is -
(dash), bdiff reads standard input.
OPTIONS
Suppresses error messages. (May either precede or follow the number argument if it is specified.)
DESCRIPTION
The bdiff command uses diff to find lines that must be changed in two files to make them identical (see the diff command). Its primary
purpose is to permit processing of files that are too large for diff.
The bdiff command ignores lines common to the beginning of both files, splits the remainders into sections of number lines, and runs diff
on the sections. The output is then processed to make it look as if diff had processed the files whole.
If you do not specify number, a system default is used. In some cases, the number you specify or the default number may be too large for
diff. If bdiff fails, specify a smaller value for number and try again.
Note that because of file segmenting, bdiff does not necessarily find the smallest possible set of file differences. In general, although
the output is similar, using bdiff is not the equivalent of using diff.
NOTES
The diff command is executed by a child process, generated by forking, and communicates with bdiff through pipes.
It should not normally be necessary to use this command, since diff can handle most large files.
EXIT STATUS
No differences. Differences found. An error occurred.
SEE ALSO
Commands: diff(1), diff3(1)bdiff(1)