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# 15  
Old 09-15-2009
Where's your code to produce the 2 desired files?
# 16  
Old 09-15-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by gch
Except syntax is simpler without awk. Mine was also one line of code and faster. You can test that with command "time". As you noticed I did not have to explain syntax to user.
Well, you will be disapointed. I just ran a benchmark on files with 13000 lines each and here are the results:
Code:
jeanluc@ibm:~/scripts/test$ time nawk -F'|' 'FNR==NR {f1[$1];next} !($1 in f1)' file1 file2 > /dev/null

real	0m0.261s
user	0m0.248s
sys	0m0.008s


jeanluc@ibm:~/scripts/test$ time mawk -F'|' 'FNR==NR {f1[$1];next} !($1 in f1)' file1 file2 > /dev/null

real	0m0.093s
user	0m0.080s
sys	0m0.008s


jeanluc@ibm:~/scripts/test$ time cat file1 file2 | cut -f1 -d \| | sort | uniq -u > /dev/null

real	0m0.943s
user	0m0.888s
sys	0m0.052s
jeanluc@ibm:~/scripts/test$

In your solution you are using three different external programs: cat, sort and uniq which, BTW, is useless as sort can handle that with the -u switch. The penalty for your system (memory and CPU wise) is higher than with a simple awk run.
# 17  
Old 09-15-2009
cat test2From example he shows, he needed only third file with first column that was occurring only once in both files.
If one needed full line entry from both files this will do:
Code:
for i in `cat file1 file2 | cut -f1 -d \| | sort | uniq -u`
do 
grep -h $i file1 >> fil1
grep -h $i file2 >> fil2
done

If one wants to save output, one can redirect it to some file. It still runs faster than awk and it is self-explanatory.
Last edited by gch; 09-15-2009 at 02:24 PM..
# 18  
Old 09-15-2009
Just realised that I used vgersh99's solution. Here are the updated result with Franklin52's one.

with nawk:
real 0m0.279s
user 0m0.272s
sys 0m0.008s

with mawk:
real 0m0.141s
user 0m0.084s
sys 0m0.016s

with the cat | cut | sort | uniq
real 0m0.943s
user 0m0.888s
sys 0m0.052s
# 19  
Old 09-15-2009
ripat, this is interesting. Which system are you using and which shell?
# 20  
Old 09-15-2009
Linux and ksh. But in this case I don't think that the type of shell is relevant as all solutions are using external programs. I ran that test on large files as one can assume that the OP was just giving a sample and will be working on larger files.
# 21  
Old 09-15-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by ripat
Linux and ksh. But in this case I don't think that the type of shell is relevant as all solutions are using external programs. I ran that test on large files as one can assume that the OP was just giving a sample and will be working on larger files.
You are right. How big were your files? Only OS and system load would make difference. I want to try it on Solaris 10. In the case of large files, there would be a threshold at which awk could gain advantage. It all depends on how these utilities are written. The multiple commands have smaller memory footprint but use multiple redirections (waiting for I/O).
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