Please become accustomed and tightly adhere to telling people in here your OS and shell versions with every new thread! Solutions given above rely on being run with a recent bourne shell, like bash or ksh.
Using shell arrays is an apt approach for tasks like given, eliminating "horizontal" and "vertical" problems. Both rdrtx1 and Chubler_XL use it, (set -A being ksh- specific). Make sure your shell provides arrays. If you run your scripts in e.g. sh, none of the proposals will work.
Try (recent bash required)
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Reason: correction of typo (STB <-> STDBY), thanks to wisecracker!
Hi
I have two files in unix. I need to compare two files and print the differed lines in other file
Eg
file1
1111
2222
3333
file2
1111
2222
3333
4444
5555
newfile
4444
5555
Thanks In advance (3 Replies)
I have two files like this:
#FILE 1
ABCD 4322 26485
JMTJ 5311 97248
XMPJ 4321 58978
#FILE 2
ABCD 4321 26485
JMTJ 5311 97248
XMPJ 4321 68978
What to do: Compare the two files and find those lines that doesn't match. And have a new file like this:
#FILE 3
"from file 1"
ABCD 4322 26485... (11 Replies)
I have learned file comparison from my previous post here. Then, it is comparing the whole line. Now, i have a new problem.
I have two files with 3 columns separated with a "|". What i want to do is to compare the second and third column of file 1, and the second and third column of file 2. And... (4 Replies)
Hi there,
I'm sure this question has been asked many times but I can't find any posts with information.
How can I check the differences between say lines 20 - 200 in file1 and lines 420 - 600 in file2?
Thanks in advance for any help!
js (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have two files file 1 and file 2 each having result of a query on certain database tables and need to compare for Col1 in file1 with Col3 in file2, compare Col2 with Col4 and output the value of Col1 from File1 which is a) not present in Col3 of File2 b) value of Col2 is different from... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have two text files, each with a single column,
file 1:
124152970
123899868
123476854
54258288
123117283
file 2:
124152970
123899868
54258288
123117283
122108330 (5 Replies)
compare two variables and print the difference
i have two variables
X1=rac1,rac2
Y1=rac2,rac3
output=rac1,rac3
Use code tags to wrap code fragments or data samples. (1 Reply)
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sdiff
sdiff(1) General Commands Manual sdiff(1)NAME
sdiff - side-by-side difference program
SYNOPSIS
[options ...] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
uses the output of diff(1) with the option, which ignores trailing blanks (spaces and tabs) and treats other strings of blanks as equal, to
produce a side-by-side listing of two files, indicating those lines that are different. Each line of the two files is printed with a blank
gutter between them if the lines are identical, a in the gutter if the line only exists in file1, a in the gutter if the line only exists
in file2, and a for lines that are different.
For example:
abc | xyz
abc abc
bca <
cba <
dcb dcb
> cde
Options
recognizes the following options:
Use the next argument,
n, as the width of the output line. The maximum value of n is 2048 (LINE_MAX). The default line length is 130 charac-
ters.
Only print on the left side when lines are identical.
Do not print identical lines.
Use the next argument,
output, as the name of a third file that is created as a user-controlled merging of file1 and file2. Identical lines of
file1 and file2 are copied to output. Sets of differences, as produced by diff(1), are printed; where a set of differ-
ences share a common gutter character. After printing each set of differences, prompts the user with a and waits for
one of the following user-typed commands:
append the left column to the output file
append the right column to the output file
turn on silent mode; do not print identical lines
turn off silent mode
call the editor with the left column
call the editor with the right column
call the editor with the concatenation of left and right
call the editor with a zero length file
exit from the program
On exit from the editor, the resulting file is concatenated on the end of the output file.
EXAMPLES
Print a side-by-side diff of two versions of a file on a printer capable of printing 132 columns:
Retrieve the most recently checked in version of a file from RCS and compare it with the version currently checked out:
SEE ALSO diff(1), ed(1).
sdiff(1)