If you use diff -e, and upon output examination, if it is all additions, there will be no change or delete commands. It is not hard to parse an output of only additions in sed or awk.
You can sort the files and send to 'comm -23'. Column 1 should be empty, no lines in a not in b.
In shell, it is very hard to have two input files open, but I think you can using coshell extensions. PERL and other full languages can do it easily.
Good Afternoon Guys:
we can use ls -l to find out the files and their modification time. however, how to list the files say which are modified 15 minutes before. we have find command which uses -mtime and -atime for modification and access timing. However, if we just be restricted to the current... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to write a script which will compare the 1st column of both the files and will give the difference.
e.g:-
my 1st file contains:
89 /usr
52 /usr/local
36 /tmp
92 /opt
96 /home
27 /etc/opt/EMCom
1 ... (3 Replies)
I have a file which gets appended with records daily..for eg. 1st day of the month i get 9 records ,2nd day 9 records .....till the last day in the month...the no of records may vary...i store the previous days file in a variable oldfile=PATH/previousdaysfile....i store the current days file in a... (6 Replies)
Hola,
Tengo un texto texto1.txt con el siguiente contenido:
Malaga
Cadiz
Sevilla
Hola
Y otro .txt texto2.txt con:
Malaga
Cadiz
Sevilla
Cordoba
Huelva
quiero obtener en otro .txt la diferencia entre estos dos archivos: (14 Replies)
I need to find the difference between two files in UNIX. I tried diff, but couldn't get it right.
There are two files:
file1: apple
mango
strawberry
banana
grape
file2: grape
apple
banana
I need an output file like below: ... (11 Replies)
I have two files as below
File1:
a
b
c
d
File2:
a
b
When i find the difference the output would be c&d..
How can i get my requirement...pls help...
Many thanks in advance (10 Replies)
I have 2 files as follows.
file1.txt
<cell>123</cell>
<cell>345</cell>
file2.txt
<cell>123</cell>
<cell>456</cell>
out out should be
output.txt
<cell>456></cell>
How do we achieve this> The difference betwenn the two files should be wirtten to the output file..
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
The requirement is to compare two files that has single column of records each. Comparison is to happen on a whole and not line by line.
File1.txt
314589929
315611087
304924413
315989094
301171509
302984393
315609549
314593632
File2.txt
315611087
304924413
315989094 (2 Replies)
Hi , i am newbie to shell scripting and am trying to do the below job,
A shell script to be run with a command like
sh Compare.ksh file1.txt file2.txt 1 2 > file3.txt
1 2-are the key columns
Consider the delimiter would be Tab or comma
File 1:
SK TEST NAME MATHS PHYSICS
21 1... (1 Reply)
Hi , i am newbie to shell scripting and am trying to do the below job,
A shell script to be run with a command like
sh Compare.ksh file1.txt file2.txt 1 2 > file3.txt
1 2-are the key columns
Consider the delimiter would be Tab or comma
File 1:
SK TEST NAME MATHS PHYSICS
21 1 AAA... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: shakthi666
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
diff
DIFF(1) General Commands Manual DIFF(1)NAME
diff - differential file comparator
SYNOPSIS
diff [ -efbwr ] file1 ... file2
DESCRIPTION
Diff tells what lines must be changed in two files to bring them into agreement. If one file is a directory, then a file in that directory
with basename the same as that of the other file is used. If both files are directories, similarly named files in the two directories are
compared by the method of diff for text files and cmp(1) otherwise. If more than two file names are given, then each argument is compared
to the last argument as above. The -r option causes diff to process similarly named subdirectories recursively. The normal output con-
tains 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 -w option causes
all white-space to be removed from input lines before applying the difference algorithm.
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. It may, however, be useful as input to a stream-oriented post-processor.
Except in rare circumstances, diff finds a smallest sufficient set of file differences.
FILES
/tmp/diff[12]
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/diff
SEE ALSO cmp(1), ed(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is the empty string for no differences, for some, and for trouble.
BUGS
Editing scripts produced under the -e or -f option are naive about creating lines consisting of a single `.'.
When running diff on directories, the notion of what is a text file is open to debate.
DIFF(1)