I have two files and I am trying to find the lines unique to file1. So i have executed the below command at shell prompt and got the correct results
When i run the same command in Bash shell script, i got the correct results.
But when i run the same command in Korn shell script, i am getting syntax error.
Error: syntax error: `(' unexpected
Can you let me know the the correct syntax in Korn Shell or is there any way to execute the command alone in bash shell and the rest of the script in Korn.
See my other post on sdiff ....
I don't think sdiff is able to do what I want.
The 'comm' command does what I need and works fine as
far as the logic and results.
The problem I'm having is with the output format, it outputs 3 columns of data,
but because of the way it starts each line... (2 Replies)
I need to find deleted records from a file. I compare yesterdays file.old to todays file.new. I need to find the records that were in yesterdays file that are not in todays. My file is fixed field. If I run a "comm -23" obviously what i find is not necesarilly a delete, it could be a change.
... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have around 14-15 files and i want to sort all the files and then compare. I dont want to sort them and store in a different file and then compare. I want to compare two files at a time. Is there a way we can do this using a single command? (5 Replies)
I have four files, I need to compare these files together.
As such i know "sdiff and comm" commands but these commands compare 2 files together. If I use sdiff command then i have to compare each file with other which will increase the codes.
Please suggest if you know some commands whcih can... (6 Replies)
I'm looking to compare two delimited files:
file1
one|xxx
two|xxx
three|xxx
file2
four|xxx
five|xxx
six|xxx
one|yyy
Where the result is the the file2 row whose first field does NOT appear in file1. I.e., the correct result would be:
result
four|xxx (3 Replies)
Hello , I am trying to get contents which are only present in a.csv ,so using comm -23
cat a.csv | sort > a.csv
cat b.csv | sort > b.csv
comm -23 a.csv b.csv > c.csv.
a.csv
SKU COUNTRY CURRENCY PRICE_LIST_TYPE LIST_PRICE_EFFECTIVE_DATE
TG430ZA ZA USD DF ... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
Iam using below method to sort and compare files. First iam doing sorting and changing the same file and then doing comparing and taking the final result to another file.
sort -o temp.txt file1
mv temp.txt file1
sort -o temp.txt file2
mv temp.txt file2
sort -o temp.txt... (6 Replies)
i have file1 and file2
file1
ABC
XYZ
file2
ABC
so i used the below command
comm -12 file1 file2 > matched
comm -23 file1 file2 > unmatched
I need some other command because this is not working in the current unix version (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ATWC
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comm
COMM(1) User Commands COMM(1)NAME
comm - compare two sorted files line by line
SYNOPSIS
comm [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
DESCRIPTION
Compare sorted files FILE1 and FILE2 line by line.
When FILE1 or FILE2 (not both) is -, read standard input.
With no options, produce three-column output. Column one contains lines unique to FILE1, column two contains lines unique to FILE2, and
column three contains lines common to both files.
-1 suppress column 1 (lines unique to FILE1)
-2 suppress column 2 (lines unique to FILE2)
-3 suppress column 3 (lines that appear in both files)
--check-order
check that the input is correctly sorted, even if all input lines are pairable
--nocheck-order
do not check that the input is correctly sorted
--output-delimiter=STR
separate columns with STR
--total
output a summary
-z, --zero-terminated
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Note, comparisons honor the rules specified by 'LC_COLLATE'.
EXAMPLES
comm -12 file1 file2
Print only lines present in both file1 and file2.
comm -3 file1 file2
Print lines in file1 not in file2, and vice versa.
AUTHOR
Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report comm translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO join(1), uniq(1)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/comm>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) comm invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 COMM(1)