Simple awk command to compare two files and print first difference
Hello,
I have two text files, each with a single column,
file 1:
file 2:
I am trying to identify the value in red above which is the first value that doesn't match the second file. I need to print that value and exit.
At first I tried diff,
diff file1 file2 | head -n 2
This gives what I want, but there are multiple lines of output and so it was more steps to get the value into a bash variable, which is what I need.
I then tried awk,
awk ' NR==FNR { a[NR]=$0; next } !($0 in a){ print $1; exit } ' file2 file1
Note that the order of input files is reversed because I want the first line of file1 that does not match file2. This just prints the first line of file1. Even if it did work, I think that this just tells me that the value is, or is not, in the file, not if the lines match.
I am sure I could do a loop with read, but that would be slow.
This seems like a very simple task. Are there any suggestions?
LMHmedchem
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-26-2017 at 07:17 PM..
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XMPJ 4321 68978
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#FILE 3
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130
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