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 FREEBSD
sdiff
SDIFF(1) User Commands SDIFF(1)NAME
sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences
SYNOPSIS
sdiff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
DESCRIPTION
Side-by-side merge of file differences.
-o FILE --output=FILE
Operate interactively, sending output to FILE.
-i--ignore-case
Consider upper- and lower-case to be the same.
-E--ignore-tab-expansion
Ignore changes due to tab expansion.
-b--ignore-space-change
Ignore changes in the amount of white space.
-W--ignore-all-space
Ignore all white space.
-B--ignore-blank-lines
Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
-I RE --ignore-matching-lines=RE
Ignore changes whose lines all match RE.
--strip-trailing-cr
Strip trailing carriage return on input.
-a--text
Treat all files as text.
-w NUM --width=NUM
Output at most NUM (default 130) print columns.
-l--left-column
Output only the left column of common lines.
-s--suppress-common-lines
Do not output common lines.
-t--expand-tabs
Expand tabs to spaces in output.
--tabsize=NUM
Tab stops are every NUM (default 8) print columns.
-d--minimal
Try hard to find a smaller set of changes.
-H--speed-large-files
Assume large files and many scattered small changes.
--diff-program=PROGRAM
Use PROGRAM to compare files.
-v--version
Output version info.
--help Output this help.
If a FILE is `-', read standard input. Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.
AUTHOR
Written by Thomas Lord.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for sdiff is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sdiff programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info diff
should give you access to the complete manual.
diffutils 2.8.7 April 2004 SDIFF(1)