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Old 03-03-2011
Compare two files and get matching data
Hi,

Can anyone help me to compare two files and get the matching data... say i have file1 and file2 ... file1 has 300 unique data with that i need to match with file2 to see how may are matching.. file2 have 1000 records.
# 2  
Old 03-03-2011
Code:
awk 'NR==FNR{a[$0]=1}NR!=FNR&&a[$0]{b++}END{print b} file1 file2

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Old 03-03-2011
Excellent!! It gives the matching count.. can i get the matching data in display?
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Old 03-03-2011
Code:
awk 'NR==FNR{a[$0]=1}NR!=FNR&&a[$0]{print $0;b++}END{print "count="b} file1 file2

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Old 03-03-2011
Code:
grep -f File1 File2

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