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# 1  
Old 08-13-2010
Compare two columns in two files and print the difference

one file
. . importing table employee 119
. . importing table jobs 1
2nd file

. . importing table employee 120
. . importing table jobs 1

and would like compare 3rd colums(which is employee) in both files print only not matched

employee 119
employee 120

Thanks

Last edited by fpmurphy; 08-14-2010 at 01:55 AM.. Reason: fix up title
# 2  
Old 08-14-2010
You can do something like that :
Code:
awk '
NR==FNR {
   val1[$5] = $6;
   val2[$5] = "N/A";
   next
}
{
   if (! ($5 in val1)) val1[$5] = "N/A";
   val2[$5] = $6;
}
END {
   for (col in val1) {
      printf "%12s : %9s : %9s\n", col, val1[col], val2[col];
   }
}
' jr1.txt jr2.txt

Inputfile~#1 (jr1.txt)
Code:
. . importing table new 34
. . importing table employee 119
. . importing table jobs 1

Input file #2 (jr2.txt)
Code:
. . importing table employee 120
. . importing table old 763
. . importing table jobs 1

Output:
Code:
        jobs :         1 :         1
         new :        34 :       N/A
         old :       N/A :       763
    employee :       119 :       120

Jean-Pierre.
# 3  
Old 08-15-2010
Code:
diff <(grep employee file1) <(grep employee file2) |awk '/employee/{print $(NF-1),$NF}'

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