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Old 07-28-2008
comparing the columns in two files

I have two files file1 and file 2
both are having multiple coloumns.i want to select only two columns.
i used following code to get the desired columns,with ',' as delimiter

cut -d ',' -f 1,2 file1 | sort > file1.new
cut -d ',' -f 1,2 file2 | sort > file2.new

I want to get the coloums that are having the difference in both the files
I used follwing code for that

comm -3 file1.new file2.new > file3

Now i have the output in the following format in the file3
1234,def
1234,abc 2345,abc
2345,def
5678,fgh
......... 5678,ijk
......... .........
and so on and so on


Here comes my problem. I have to generate a mail in such a way that

1234 has a change from abc to def and
2345 has a change from def to abc and
5678 has a change from fgh to ijk and so on

please help me in writing the script for the above
Thanks in advance...
# 2  
Old 07-28-2008
Try this perhaps (untested but should give you some ideas):

Code:
cut -d ',' -f 1,2 file1 | sort -t, -k 1,1 > file1.new
cut -d ',' -f 1,2 file2 | sort -t, -k 1,1 > file2.new
join -t, -1 1 -2 1 file1.new file2.new | awk -F, '$2 != $3'

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