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# 8  
Old 12-14-2012
If I run both scripts on your sample:

Code:
$ cat file1
Milestone1
Milestone2
Milestone3
Milestone4
Milestone5
Milestone6
$ cat file2
Milestone1
Milestone12
Milestone13
Milestone14
Milestone5
Milestone16
$ grep -xFf file1 file2
Milestone1
Milestone5
$ awk 'NR==FNR{A[$1]; next}$1 in A' file1 file2
Milestone1
Milestone5

Perhaps you could cut and paste this back into test input files and see if it works then and to spot the difference with your actual sample?
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# 9  
Old 12-14-2012
You can also try like this

1st sort both the files

Code:
sort filename1 -o filename1

Code:
sort filename2 -o filename2

then try

Code:
comm -12 filename1 filename2


Last edited by Vikram_Tanwar12; 12-14-2012 at 04:46 PM..
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# 10  
Old 12-15-2012
Hi Folks thanks for your prompt reply.

Now I am getting the same contain repeated in different files, but there is another problem raised with it.

If I run the command specified by Scrutinizer and Vikram. It is giving me output of every repeated files, but it is not a uniq name.

I believe I need to more precise to explain the scenario, I am changing a little in my file structure example.

Let me explain. If I do
Code:
$cat File1
Milestone1
Milestone1
Milestone2
Milestone3
Milestone4
Milestone5
Milestone6

Code:
$cat File2
Milestone1
Milestone12
Milestone13
Milestone14
Milestone5
Milestone1
Milestone16

Now if I run the code specified by Scrutinizer and Vikram it is giving me output as
Code:
File2:Milestone1
File2:Milestone1
File2:Milestone5

As I told that I am working with huge number of data. The repeat lines will create trouble for me.

What I require is the out put will be
Code:
File2:Milestone1 , repeated 2 times
File2:Milestone5 , repeated 1 times

is it possible to get the results like that?

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-15-2012 at 04:41 AM..
# 11  
Old 12-15-2012
To get unique results you could just run everything throught sort -u:
Code:
grep -xFf file1 file2 | sort -u

or
Code:
awk 'NR==FNR{A[$1]; next}$1 in A' file1 file2 | sort -u



--
Alternatively, one could make sure results only get printed once, for example:
Code:
awk 'NR==FNR{A[$1]++; next}$1 in A{delete A[$1]; print $1}' file1 file2


===

To get a count, you could use the -H opion you can run everything through | sort | uniq -c
Code:
grep -HxFf file1 file2 | sort | uniq -c

or to also specify the file name:
Code:
echo | grep -xFf infile1904 infile1904b - | sort | uniq -c



--
To get exactly the result you specified, it would need to be something like this:
Code:
awk '
  NR==FNR{
    A[$1]++;
    next
  }
  $1 in A{
    T[$1]++
  } 
  END{
    for(i in T)printf "%s: %s , repeated %d times\n", FILENAME,i,T[i]
  }
' file1 file2


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-15-2012 at 04:58 AM..
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# 12  
Old 12-15-2012
Maybe you have created file1 and file2 in Windos?
Then you need to convert them to Unix style first:

Code:
dos2unix file1 file1
dos2unix file2 file2

and now retry the scripts. They should work.

If you want both the matches and the number of matches, go with awk:

Code:
awk 'NR==FNR {A[$1]; next} $1 in A {count++; print} END {print count,"matching records"}' file1 file2 > file3

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