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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Fixed width file comparision not working Post 302768075 by onesuri on Friday 8th of February 2013 02:17:08 AM
Old 02-08-2013
Fixed width file comparision not working
Quote:
Sample records
1000000782378 abc 78 909 jksjd 0909 askkjdk 0909asd jkjk jk j as0d90a9sd
1000006782379 ddd 789 8999 kiks 0909 askkjdk 0909asd jkjk jk j as0d90a9sd
1000004789898 bcsdskdjsk9 hajsh 8989 ashdkajsd889898d jkjk jk j as0d90a9sd
1000008989890 abc 78 909 jksjd 0909 askkjdk 0909asd jkbnsh aksdhakshdkkh
1000009098988 abc 78 909 jksjd 0909 askkjdk 0909asd jkjk jk j as0d90a9sd
1000000009878 abc 78 909 jksjd 0909 askkjdk 0909asd jkjk jk j as0d90a9sd

I have two fixed width files which is having 200K records.

Two File size is same,
Two file counts are same,
Checked sample records, the record length and data are fine.
when i used diff/cmp/cat -v commands i am getting the difference

Code:
cmp command 
cmp -l file1 file2 |head -1

1300 15 10

Manually checked records[vi +1300 filename]. record length and data matched.



Code:
diff file1 file2 

3C3
<record information

Manually checked records[vi +3 filename]. record length and data matched.

Code:
Checked with cat -v -to find any special charters 
Example 
cat -v "some value" file1   <--No special charters
cat -v "some value" file2   <--No special charters

is their any way we can compare fixed width files...
Thanks
oneSuri
 

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BZDIFF(1)						      General Commands Manual							 BZDIFF(1)

NAME

       bzcmp, bzdiff - compare bzip2 compressed files

SYNOPSIS

       bzcmp [ cmp_options ] file1 [ file2 ]
       bzdiff [ diff_options ] file1 [ file2 ]

DESCRIPTION

       Bzcmp  and  bzdiff  are used to invoke the cmp or the diff program on bzip2 compressed files.  All options specified are passed directly to
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SEE ALSO

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