the diff command is standard in any modern unix and does what you want, I think.
try:
And see if that will do what you need. It adds a little extra information so you can tell which file has what.
If you tell us your OS it might help - diff implementations may have extra options
Hi All,
a new bie to awk,
How to compare substring of col1,file 1 with
col2file2 and get file1contents+col3file2 as output.
file1
-----
kumarfghh,23,12000,5000
rajakumar,24,14000,2500
rajeshchauhan,25,16000,2600
manoj,26,17000,2300
file 2
--------
123,kumar,US,
123,sukumar,UK... (4 Replies)
I know that 'brute-force' scripting could accomplish this with lots of cat/echo/cut/grep and more. But, because my real file has 800k records, and the matching files have 10-20k records, this is not time-possible or efficient.
I have input file:
> cat file_in... (4 Replies)
I've been trying to use awk to compare two files that have pretty much the same data in apart from certain lines where in one file a fields value has changed. I want to print the line from the first file and the changed line from the second file.
At the moment, all I can get it to do is print the... (6 Replies)
I am trying to match 4 colums (first_name,last_name,dob,ssn) between 2 files and when there is an exact match I need to write out these matches to a new file with a combination of fields from file1 and file2. I've managed to come up with a way to match these 2 files based on the columns (see below)... (7 Replies)
hit brick wall while trying to knock up a script that will take values from the "lookup" file and look it up in the "target" file and return values that dont appear in "target" but do in "lookup".
just knocked up something using bits from previous threads but theres gotta be something wrong... (13 Replies)
I am trying to parse two files and get data that does not match in one of the columns ( column 3 in my case )
Data for two files are as follows
A.txt
=====
abc 10 5 0 1 16
xyz 16 1 1 0 18
efg 30 8 0 2 40
ijk 22 2 0 1 25
B.txt
=====
abc... (6 Replies)
i have one file say file1 having many records.Each record contains 2000 characters.i have to compare 192-200 (stored as name)characters in this file from other file say file2 having name stored in 1-9 characters.
after comparing i have to print the record from file1 in another file say file3 ... (3 Replies)
I've two files with data like below:
file1.txt:
AAA,Apples,123
BBB,Bananas,124
CCC,Carrot,125
file2.txt:
Store1|AAA|123|11
Store2|BBB|124|23
Store3|CCC|125|57
Store4|DDD|126|38
So,the field separator in file1.txt is a comma and in file2.txt,it is |
Now,the output should be... (2 Replies)
so have file1 like this:
joe 123
jane 456
and then file2 like this:
123 left right
456 up down
joe ding dong
jane flip flop
what I need to do is compare col1 and col2 in file1 with col1 in file2 and generate a new file that has lines like this:
joe 123 ding dong left right
jane... (11 Replies)
Hello ,
I am trying to compare two files i.e one master file and the other exclusion file. If the second field of masterfile is oracle8 then I need to compare the 3rd field of master file with the 1st field of all the rows of exclusion file else I need to compare 2nd field from master file with... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rahul2662
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
cut-diff
CUT-DIFF(1) Cutter's manual CUT-DIFF(1)NAME
cut-diff - show difference between 2 files with color
SYNOPSIS
cut-diff [option ...] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
cut-diff is a diff command that uses diff feature in Cutter. It shows difference with color.
It's recommended that you use a normal diff(1) when you want to use with patch(1) or you don't need color.
OPTIONS --version
cut-diff shows its own version and exits.
-c [yes|true|no|false|auto], --color=[yes|true|no|false|auto]
If 'yes' or 'true' is specified, cut-diff uses colorized output by escape sequence. If 'no' or 'false' is specified, cut-diff never
use colorized output. If 'auto' or the option is omitted, cut-diff uses colorized output if available.
The default is auto.
-u, --unified
cut-diff uses unified diff format.
--context-lines=LINES
Shows diff context around LINES.
All lines are shown by default. When unified diff format is used, 3 lines are shown by default.
--label=LABEL, -L=LABEL
Uses LABEL as a header label. The first--label option value is used as file1's label and the second --label option value is used
asfile2's label.
Labels are the same as file names by default.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 for success, non-0 otherwise.
TODO: 0 for non-difference, 1 for difference and non-0 for errors.
EXAMPLE
In the following example, cut-diff shows difference between file1 and file2:
% cut-diff file1 file2
In the following example, cut-diff shows difference between file1 and file2 with unified diff format:
% cut-diff -u file1 file2
SEE ALSO diff(1)Cutter February 2011 CUT-DIFF(1)