Please avoid hijacking 4-month-old threads.
The terms "basic file" does not appear in unix (or any other Operating System which I can think of). The usual distinction is "text file" compared with "binary file". There are many types of "binary file".
The very basic answer is to use the unix file command.
e.g.
Code:
file filename
Try it and see if it gives the result you require.
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)
Here's the problem...
I'm using a simulator on UNIX, and it requires a filename where bits are stored, it should read them out and do whatever with them at that point..
So what i'm trying to do is make a binary file on UNIX. On my PC i can use MSDEV, or any of my C++ compilers to generate a... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I need a solution on my following find command
find ./.. -name '*.file' -print
BTW This gives me the output as belows
./rtlsim/test/ADCONV0/infile/ad0_dagctst.file
./rtlsim/test/ADCONV0/user_command.file
./rtlsim/test/ADCONV0/simv.daidir/scsim.db.dir/scsim.db.file... (2 Replies)
I need to compare 2 diff type of files and find out the duplicate after comparing each types of files:
Type 1 file name is like: file1.abc
(the extension abc could any 3 characters but I can narrow it down or hardcode for 10/15 combinations).
The other file is file1.bcd01abc (the extension... (2 Replies)
Hi Masters,
I have two files named file1 and file2.
Both the files contains the same contents with some difference in comments,space.But no content change.
I tried to find the diff between the two files to make sure that contents are same.
For that i tried
diff -ibw file1 file2
But... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have 2 files.I want to check if file1 is contained in file2.
A.txt:
-----
AAA
BBB
B.txt:
------
CCC
AAA
BBB
DDD
I want to check if A.txt is contained in B.txt. Can it be done using SED ? (12 Replies)
Hi All,
I have two files which look as below
File1
serial="1" name="abc" type="employee" field="IT"
serial="2" name="cde" type="intern" field="Marketing"
serial="3" name="pqr" type="contractor" field="IT"
serial="4" name="xyz" type="employee" field="Sales"
File2
serial="1"... (3 Replies)
Hi All,Is there anyway I can conver the binary file to ascii. I don't know the binary file format. file command just lists this as "data" file and when I view it has a lot of non-printable characters.Can I write any command equivalent to wc -l to find out the number of rows in the file?Can I use... (4 Replies)
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)
Discussion started by: kenshinhimura
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
zcmp
ZDIFF(1) General Commands Manual ZDIFF(1)NAME
zcmp, zdiff - compare compressed files
SYNOPSIS
zcmp [ cmp_options ] file1 [ file2 ]
zdiff [ diff_options ] file1 [ file2 ]
DESCRIPTION
Zcmp and zdiff are used to invoke the cmp or the diff program on files compressed via gzip. All options specified are passed directly to
cmp or diff. If only file1 is specified, it is compared to the uncompressed contents of file1.gz. If two files are specified, their con-
tents (uncompressed if necessary) are fed to cmp or diff. The input files are not modified. The exit status from cmp or diff is pre-
served.
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), zmore(1), zgrep(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1)BUGS
Messages from the cmp or diff programs may refer to file names such as "-" instead of to the file names specified.
ZDIFF(1)