You can also use the -vf flags of grep something like this:-
This will display lines from file1 that are not in file2. No output infers that file1 lines are all found in file2, however there is no consideration on the order of the lines, if there are duplicate lines etc.
Would this do what you need?
I haven't got a SunOS server available to test on, so you might need to adjust your code to perhaps use fgrep and drop the -f flag.
Robin
Works but how can i ignore newlines / whitespace lines ? Becoz the files shows as different just becoz if has a few new / blank lines.
Hi, i've two files (file1, file2) i want to take value (in column1) and search in file2 if the they match print the value from file2.
this is what i have so far.
awk 'FILENAME=="file1"{ arr=$1 }
FILENAME=="file2"
{print $0}
' file1 file2 (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have two files say file1 and file2.
I want to check the number of records in file1 and if its atleast 2 (i.e., 2 or greater than 2 ) then I have to check records in file2 .If records in file2 is atleast 1 (i.e. if its not empty ) i have to set some conditions .
Could you pls... (3 Replies)
Wat does this command do?
fileA is a subset of fileB..now, i need to find the lines in fileB that are not in fileA...i.e fileA - fileB.
diff fileA fileB gives the ouput but the format looks no good....
I just need the contents alone not the line num etc. (7 Replies)
Hello, I am new to shell scripting and i need to create a script with the following directions and I can not figure it out.
Create a shell script called newest.bash that takes two filenames as input arguments ($1 and $2) and prints out the name of the newest file (i.e. the file with the... (1 Reply)
Hi
I started to learn bash a week ago. I need filter the strings from the last column of a "file2" that match with a column from an other "file1"
file1:
chr10100036394-100038350AK077761
chr10100041065-100046547AK032226
chr10100041065-100046547AK016270
chr10100041065-100046547AK078231
...... (6 Replies)
I have very limited coding skills but I'm wondering if someone could help me with this. There are many threads about matching strings in two files, but I have no idea how to add a column from one file to another based on a matching string.
I'm looking to match column1 in file1 to the number... (3 Replies)
HI,
I would like a little help on writing a if statement.
What i have so far is:
#!/bin/bash
FILE1=path/to/file1
FILE2=path/to/file2
echo ${FILE1} ${FILE2}
if ]
then
echo file1 and file2 not found
else
echo FILE ok
fi (6 Replies)
I want to print only the lines in file2 that match file1, in the same order as they appear in file 1
file1
file2
desired output:
I'm getting the lines to match
awk 'FNR==NR {a++}; FNR!=NR && a' file1 file2
but they are in sorted order, which is not what I want:
Can anyone... (4 Replies)
In-order to check and print if file2 is a subset of file one i do the below.
var1=$(cat //tmp/file1 | sort -u | wc)
var2=$(cat /tmp/file2 /tmp/file1 | sort -u | wc)
if ; then
echo "file2 is a subset of file1 becoz var1 and var2 have the same values."
fi
However, i get the following error ... (1 Reply)
I am trying to use awk to find all the $2 values in file2 which is ~30MB and tab-delimited, that are between $2 and $3 in file1 which is ~2GB and tab-delimited.
I have just found out that I need to use $1 and $2 and $3 from file1 and $1 and $2of file2 must match $1 of file1 and be in the range... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
comm
COMM(1) BSD General Commands Manual COMM(1)NAME
comm -- select or reject lines common to two files
SYNOPSIS
comm [-123f] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
The comm utility reads file1 and file2, which should be sorted lexically, and produces three text columns as output: lines only in file1;
lines only in file2; and lines in both files.
The filename ``-'' means the standard input.
The following options are available:
-1 Suppress printing of column 1.
-2 Suppress printing of column 2.
-3 Suppress printing of column 3.
-f Fold case in line comparisons.
Each column will have a number of tab characters prepended to it equal to the number of lower numbered columns that are being printed. For
example, if column number two is being suppressed, lines printed in column number one will not have any tabs preceding them, and lines
printed in column number three will have one.
comm assumes that the files are lexically sorted; all characters participate in line comparisons.
EXIT STATUS
comm exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred.
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), sort(1), uniq(1)STANDARDS
The comm utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD