1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Is there a way (either commands/tools/scripts/logic) to compare two given folders on different unix boxes. I want to compare folder a in Unix box 'A' with folder 'b' in Unix box 'B'. I can run the script in Unix box 'A'. I am looking. for following results: files/sub folders only in a... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I need to compare the content of one file with the other.The first file holds the records: aaa ,123 bbb,321 ccc,890 Second file willl holds the record aaa,bbb,ccc My problem is i need to take the first column of file one and compare with the first row of second file.If it... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I am using dircmp -d <folde1> <Folder2> to compare the files from two different foldes, but this command compares for all the files. Is there any option to select only some files for comparision. For example in Folder1: file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt Folder2 file1.txt file2.txt... (0 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I try to compare 2 folders, i explain, i have file in this 2 folder and i want to print out the difference in this folders... ex: folder1: file1 file2 file3 folder2: file1 file2 print file3 I do a ls of the 2 folders and i use the command diff (diff $var1 $var2) without... (8 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a large text file and I want to split its content into multiple flies. this large file contains several blocks of codes separated by a comment line for each block. this comment line represents a directory path So, when separate these blocks each into a separate file, This output... (7 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm looking for a bash scrypt to copy some folders and some of the content to another location. I'm a teacher and very noobish with programming language anyway what I'm looking for , I have this director structure Main director "Students" with subfolders "john";"daisy";"work" etc .. and some of... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I created a skript in ksh which generate a file with semicolon as separator, this is an example of the file a created: example content file: hello;AAAA;2014-08-17 hello;BBBB;2014-08-17 hello;CCCC;2014-08-17 I would need to compare the content in of the second column of this file... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Experts my scenario is as follows... I have one source folder "Source" and 2 target folders "Target_123456" & "Target_789101". I have 2 series of files. 123456 series and 789101 series. Each series has got 3 types of fiels "Debit", "Refund", "Claims". All files are getting... (17 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All I want to compare 2 files using awk and get output of content which is not matching I have 2 files a.txt 123 456 780 143 b.txt A|B|C|167|D|E C|K|D|123|D|E A|B|D|789|G|F C|D|G|143|A|B Not matching line from b.txt O/P A|B|C|167|D|E A|B|D|789|G|F (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, my first thread here. I've been searching and fiddling around for about a week and I cannot find a solution.:confused: I have been converting all of my home videos to HEVC and sometimes the files end up smaller and sometimes they don't. I am currently comparing all the video files... (5 Replies)