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# 1  
Old 09-20-2013
How to create a script to compare 2 files?
I have two files
File1 and File2 will contains same number of fields.
The rows in File1 can be found anywhere in File2.
If any rows from File1 doesn't match to File2 then write those records to a File1 log file.
If any rows from File2 doesn't match to File1 then write those records to a File2 log file.
How would you script this in Unix Shell script?

File1 contains:
Code:
105|ALL|VIM|1
100|ALL|STM|3
99|CLL|TRA|2

File2 contains:
Code:
99|ALL|TRA|2
100|ALL|STM|3
75|MLL|STM|1

Desire results:
A file1 log should contain following records because it didn't find it in file2.
Code:
105|ALL|VIM|1
99|CLL|TRA|2

A file2 log should contain following records because it didn't find it in file1.
Code:
99|ALL|TRA|2
75|MLL|STM|1

Last edited by Scott; 09-20-2013 at 04:35 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 09-20-2013
Hi
not found in file2:
Code:
sort file2 file2 file1 | uniq -u

not found in file1:
Code:
sort file1 file1 file2 | uniq -u

Regards.
# 3  
Old 09-23-2013
How do you write the records that didn't match to a logfile?
# 4  
Old 09-23-2013
Code:
awk 'FNR==NR{a[$1];next} ! ($1 in a)' file2 file1 > file1.log

cat file1.log
105|ALL|VIM|1
99|CLL|TRA|2

awk 'FNR==NR{a[$1];next} ! ($1 in a)' file1 file2 > file2.log

cat file2.log
99|ALL|TRA|2
75|MLL|STM|1

# 5  
Old 09-23-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by ranjanp
How do you write the records that didn't match to a logfile?
Redirect stdout to resp. logfile. (c.f. man bash (or whatever shell you use))
# 6  
Old 09-23-2013
I have a third file that I need to compare, which contains following data:

Code:
MAT1|99|ALL|TRA|2
MAT1|100|ALL|STM|3
MAT1|75|MLL|STM|1

How can I compare the file1 with this file3?
File1 only contains 4 columns and file3 contains 5 columns, while comparing need
to strip off the 1st column on file3.
Last edited by Scott; 09-23-2013 at 09:36 PM.. Reason: CODE tags
# 7  
Old 09-24-2013
Try this for all file pairs; both respective log files will be created:
Code:
awk     'NF == 5        {sub (/^[^|]*\|/,"")}
         NR == FNR      {a[$0]; fn=FILENAME".log"; next}
         ($0 in a)      {delete a[$0]; next}
                        {print > FILENAME".log"}
         END            {for (i in a) print i > fn}
        ' FS="|" file1 file2

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