So to match 6 digits on a line only, try:
Also note that a \ inside square brackets denotes a literal \ character, not an escape.
That didn't fly the first time but then I discovered a trailing space after all the valid six digit numbers, so adding a space before the $ fixed it.
I didn't realize a period didn't need to be escaped when in a bracket. In the first code in my OP on the last s command (ends with /g), I took out the "\" with no ill effects.
I have to compare two text files, very few of the lines in these files will have some difference in some column.
The files size is in GB.
Sample lines are as below:
11111122222222333333aaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbccccccccdddddd
11111122222222333333aaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbccccccccddeddd
So assuming these... (19 Replies)
hi
I have 2 files to comapre ,in file a sible column it is numbers,in file b2 numbers and other values with coma separated.
i want compare numbers in file a with file b,and the out put put should be in C with numbers in both file a and b along with other columns of file b.
i used folowing... (7 Replies)
I have two text files which have records of thousand rows. Each row is having around 40 columns. Each column is tab delimited. Each row is delimited by newline character.
My requirement is to find for each row i need to find whether any column is different between the two files. For each row i... (8 Replies)
Hi i have 2 csv files a.csv and b.csv with the same number of columns and a list of values in both of it. Each and every individual value in both the files need to compared and if it matches then print correct in a new csv file otherwise print Incorrect
eg
a.csv
1,12/27/2007,Reward,$10.00... (5 Replies)
now i have a different file zoo.txt with content
123|zoo
234|natan
456|don
and file rick.txt with contents
123|dog|pie|pep
123|tail|see|newt
456|som|sin|sim
234|pay|rat|cat
i want to look for lines in file zoo.txt column1 that has same corresponding lines in column 1 of... (6 Replies)
Hello, I am trying to compare 2 files and get only the new lines as output. Note that new lines can be anywhere in the file and not necessarily at the bottom of the file.
I have made the following progress so far.
/home/aa>cat old.txt
0001 732 A
0002 732 C
0005 732 D... (7 Replies)
Req:
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1)I have one shell script a.sh
2)I opened Putty session , with user name = SIR100 , and i ran a.sh script in back ground and
it took 5 minutes to complete.Meanwhile,i ran same script second time i.e a.sh with same user it sholud not allow to run the script , but it's... (3 Replies)
Dear All,
I would really appreciate if you can help me to resolve this file comparison
I have two files:
file1:
chr start end ID gene_name
chr1 2020 3030 1 test1
chr1 900 5000 2 test1
chr2 5000 8000 3 test2
chr3 6000 12000 4 test3
chr3 6000 15000 5 test3
file2:... (2 Replies)
HI,
I have two files and contains many Fields with | (pipe) delimitor, wanted to compare both the files and get only unmatched perticular fields. this i wanted to use in shell scriting.
ex:
first.txt
111 |abc| 230| hbc231 |bbb |210 |bbd405 |ghc |555 |cgv
second.txt
111 |abc |230 |hbc231... (1 Reply)