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How can we avoid the use of system command inside awk program?
Is there any alternative way in awk programming for removing files, sorting files and to find the differences between two file without...

Actually i am using cygwin and the problem was in the editor(notepad) which was not displaying it correctly. When i opened the same file in wordpad the display was as desired.

Thanks
Sandeep

I have written a code using AWK & sed to compare two files.
The structure of the files is like this"

Format is this:
<bit code> <file code> <string>
Follwoed by any numbers of properties lines...

echo " san \n"
gives the following output

san \n

but when we use echo -e " san \n" it gives the desired output on the screen but while inserting into the file it doesn't work.

Please help...

I want to insert a new line character inside the file between these two record entries "san" and "man". How can this be done

echo " san " >"C:/\Test/\Output/\Neme"
echo " man "...

Thanks alot

Please help

How can i add a varying filename at the end of a constant file path?

Eg:
Variable containing file name is varfile (say varfile=newfile)
File path is C:\Test\

I want to access newfile which...

I am using awk command to sort a large file (7MB) and compare two files of
7 MB. The code is working fine for smaller files. But it gives following error for larger files
Segmentation fault...

But i still have 2 doubts.
1.) How to access folders or path which contains spaces in their names like this:

C:\Documents and Settings\san deep\Desktop\File1



2.) Suppose i want to access a...

I got the solution
it can be done like this
v1="C:/\Test/\Ad.A"


Thanks
Sandeep

Thank you so much .

Regards
sandeep

How to pass a file path to open a file?
I am using cygwin.
I want to open a file from a particular path, say C:\Test\File1,. This file path is stored in a variable.
I am able to cat a file like...

Thnaks alot !!!

I could not understand this line of code can u please explain me what exactly it is meant for and how is it happening:

It is not printing MEGAmismatch at all some problem is there.

I have to compare records in two files. It can be done using gawk/awk but i am unable to do it. Please help me


File1

ABAAAAAB BC asa sa
ABAAABAA BC bsa sm
ABBBBAAA BC bxz sa
ABAAABAB BC...

Thank you ..that solves my problem

Can any one tell me why isn't this code working??

echo "Enter string1 and string2"
read str1
read str2
awk 'BEGIN{}
{
for (i=1; i<=23; i++)
{
if(substr(str1,"$i",1) != substr(str2,"$i",1))...

Hi Glenn

While using cmp i had a problem. If a bit postion value is missing in one file then after that missing bit postions all bits henceforth are mismatching.This results in outputing all the...

How to use OR with If for string comparison??

What is wrong in these two codes??

1.
if test $1 != "SO" OR $1 != "NO"
then
echo "Invalid"
else
echo "Valid"

2.
if(( $1 != "SO" || $1 !=...

Thank you Glenn and Jim!!
That has solved my problem

Thanks & Regards
Sandeep

Yes Glenn i have tried that but how to get exact bit postion from the output of diff.
I have been trying to solve this since yesterday but could not make through it as i am new to shell scripting i...

Is it possible to comapre 2 files bit by bit and output the following things:
1. Bit position of mismatch in each line
2. Missing records in either of the two files


Note 3rd column in both the...

Thank you so much Glenn...
Came to know about join from you

Is it possible to add a new column in a file by matching a key element in second file ?

File 1
2 a
3 b
4 d
5 g
6 j
7 m


File 2

4 hjjjj
5 aaa
6 sasa
7 dsds
2 dsdf
3 fdsfg

Hi Jim !

Thanks alot...

Please tell me if you have any links for Shell Script beginer's

Regards
Sandeep