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Diff would compare line by line, correct?

If one file is shorter than the other by no more than a line, I've already gotten a false positive and a duplicate line.

Okay, first of all, thanks to everyone who's helped me out before... I appreciate the opportunity to learn.

I have two iTunes XML files, and I simply want to compare the contents, then merge....

Thanks for the quick reply...

This is in fact a piece of a script for processing files associated with a particular application, and part of the script uses unzip to process files according to...

So, thanks, two questions...

1: The slashes prior to the dollar sign in dir1 and dir2, are those there for a reason?
2: Will removing the quotes from dir2's use of variabledir cause the...

Well, I think I've managed to take two different issues and conglomerate them into and embarrasing mess.


#!/bin/bash
# Set some variables
dir1=/path/that/isnt/variable/$variabledir/dir/...

The sample provided is the long list file, simply cat'ed from a .db to a .txt.

Unfortunately the grep suggestion failed... perhaps I can cat the filelist from the directory into xargs and from...

Thanks! Contents of the file is just a list of files, one per line:


badfiles.txt:

file.stuff
file2.stuff
file3.stuff


One of the long lists also has semicolons at the end of the line,...

So, let's see if I can construct an example.

Long list 1 contains a list of files, so does long list 2. These filenames are being compared to shortlist, which is a list generated from a find...

I was not aware that compare allowed only output of matches... Also, I'm afraid I'm not sure how I would iterate through an array.

My idea so far was to take the third array (shortlist) and...

I have two arrays I need to compare against a third, looking for matches, not differences. I think I'm going to have to convert the arrays to files and grep them, but I'm not too sure if there's a...