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Thank u very much drl. I probably need a manual of all such utilies in unix (solaris). I'll google for a link or so. Thanks!

I need it in awk as well as a shell script function.
I am doing it with nested while loops and parsing each line. Thought, there might be a command. Thanks for stopping by anyway.

Given two files of the same format (For example number1|text1|number2) what is the command to print lines in file1 which do not occur in file2? diff command seems a bit complicated for me for this...

Thanks for the insight and advice porter. Apparently they don't have the xpg4 sh (the scripts simply didn't work in the system). These scripts haven't been tested yet. Someone from testing did...

porter, I'm just a shell programmer working on the project on a need to know basis, unfortunately. The higher ups do not want to make any compromises on the production system, so they instructed me...

wise counsel, porter. Thanks.

However, the scripts are for the 'production system' which apparently does not have ksh, while the development system does (Don't ask me why). That is why I am...

reborg, I'm just a shell programmer and the OS is solaris (which I access using putty from windows). Both sh and ksh seem to be installed (I can execute both from prompt). Should I use a C solution...

thanks for ur response. unforunately, i am not in a position to change the ksh environment to sh although that would be wise to do :).

Hello All,

I have a whole bunch of shell scripts written in a ksh environment and which successfully execute there. However, I found out that they eventually need to be used in a sh environment....