Shell Programming and Scripting

Previous message implied that you had solved the matter. Do you still need a way to differentiate values?

Thanks for your reply. I'll leave it to your discretion.

All it appears that you need is the device size, not the rest of the data when reporting number in that size category. So, I made sample1 and sample2 from your two files. I then ran the following script:

Code:

> cat numcomp
#! /bin/bash

cknum=5242880
count=0
echo $cknum

cat sample1 sample2 >sample3
cat sample3 | cut -d":" -f11 >sample4

echo "TRIAL #1"
cat sample4 | grep $cknum

echo "TRIAL #2"
cat sample4 | grep $cknum >sample5
while read zf
   do
#      echo $zf
      if [ $zf -eq $cknum ]
         then
            echo "Match "$zf
            count=$(($count + 1)) 
         else
            echo "Skipping "$zf
      fi
done <sample5

echo $count" occurences found of "$cknum

It generated output as follows:

So, pulling out to only have the size on each line allows through script to do the mathematical match to the number. While you already have another approach to solve the matter, I thought I'd follow-up and present this programming solution. A lot of the code could be eliminated when actually used, I just wanted to show the thought process.