Thanks to all who replied. The reason sdiff wouldn't work is because the bigger file had many more 16-digit entries in between the matches in the smaller file, so a line-to-line comparison between them wasn't successful -- common entries were on very different line numbers in each file.
Instead of shell scripting I found a solution using a database reporting tool called Visimage, which read in both files as flat databases and then found the matches between them. Just for my own knowledge, I'm going to try the awk solution posted above in #13. Thanks, all.
---------- Post updated 05-02-13 at 11:36 AM ---------- Previous update was 05-01-13 at 12:00 PM ----------
Thanks to MIG for the awk code below. It worked.
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
A $1+0 cast is not needed because all numbers have equal length.
HP-UX awk is very similar to nawk.
Hi,
I have one situation. I have some 6-7 no. of files in one directory & I have to extract all the lines which exist in all these files. means I need to extract all common lines from all these files & put them in a separate file.
Please help. I know it could be done with the help of... (11 Replies)
I am looking for a file with 'MCR0000000716214' in it. I tried the following command:
grep MCR0000000716214 *
The problem is that the folder I am searching in has over 87000 files and I am getting the following:
bash: /bin/grep: Arg list too long
Is there any command I can use that can... (6 Replies)
Hi! I have a large set of pairs of text files (each pair in their own subdirectory) and each pair shares head/tail (a couple of first and last lines) but differs in the middle part. I need to delete the heads/tails and keep only the middle portions in which they differ. The lengths of heads/tails... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I have a text file in the format
DB2:
DB2:
WB:
WB:
WB:
WB:
and a second text file of the format
Time=00:00:00.473
Time=00:00:00.436
Time=00:00:00.016
Time=00:00:00.027
Time=00:00:00.471
Time=00:00:00.436
the last string in both the text files is of the... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have 2 files with following data
First file,
sp|Q676U5|A16L1_HUMAN,
Autophagy-related protein 16-1 OS=Homo sapiens GN=ATG16L1 PE=1 SV=2,
Maximum coiled-coil residue probability: 0.657 in position 163.
Maximum dimeric residue probability: 0.288 in position 163.
... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have two files like below:
File1
MYFILE_28012012_1112.txt|4
MYFILE_28012012_1113.txt|51
MYFILE_28012012_1114.txt|57
MYFILE_28012012_1115.txt|57
MYFILE_28012012_1116.txt|57
MYFILE_28012012_1117.txt|57
File2
MYFILE_28012012_1110.txt|57
MYFILE_28012012_1111.txt|57... (2 Replies)
I have two directories
Dir 1
/home/sid/release1
Dir 2
/home/sid/release2
I want to find the common files between the two directories
Dir 1 files
/home/sid/release1>ls -lrt
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 sid cool 0 Jun 19 12:53 File123
-rw-r--r-- 1 sid cool 0 Jun 19 12:53... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sidnow
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)