And if you wrote code to do that what would you do with the output? (What I'm asking is: what are your trying to acheive? --the answer is not "padding diff output")
Maybe
is what you want, to give you some sort of answer.
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)
Hi,
I have two similar directory structures. One is the latest dev environment and the other is a previous version of the same dev environment.
I need to do a diff on the .cpp .c .java and .h files.
Hence I need a list of all the files of the above pattern so that I can diff then... (3 Replies)
Hi,
svn diff does not work very well with 2 local folders, so I am trying to do this diff using diff locally.
since there's a bunch of meta files in an svn directory, I want to do a diff that excludes everything EXCEPT *.java files. there seems to be only an --exclude option, so I'm not sure... (3 Replies)
Hi
I want to compare 2 files. The files have the same amount of rows and columns. So each line must be compare against the other and if one differs from the other, the result of both must be stored in a seperate file.
I am doing this in awk.
Here is my file1:
Blocks... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to shell scripting.
please help me to find out the solution.
I need a script where we need to read the text file(consists of all file names) and get the file names one by one
and append the date suffix for each file name as 'yyyymmdd' .
Then search each file if exists... (1 Reply)
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)
Hi Gurus,
I have requirement to compare current result with previous reuslt.
The sample case is below.
1 job1 1
1 job2 2
1 job3 3
2 job_a1 1
2 job_a2 2
2 job_a3 3
3 job_b1 1
3 job_b2 2
for above sample file, GID is group ID, for input line, the job run... (1 Reply)
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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)