Shell Programming and Scripting

Nullwhat,

Thank you for the script. I'm just got to work and tried your command:

sdiff -s -w 200 file1 file2 > file3

I was able to get close. So I tried:

sdiff file1 file2 > file3

and got what I was looking for. THANK YOU!

I know someone would be able to do what I was looking for with just one command. hehe.

You can try in this way also, if you dont want that '>' and '<' in the lines

1. sdiff file1 file2 | tr -s ' <' '\t' | tr -s ' >' '\t'
and
2. sdiff file1 file2 | sed -e's/ <//g;s/\t/ /g;s/ >/\t/g'

With awk:

Code:

awk 'NR==FNR{a[$0];next}$0 in a{print $0"\t"$0;next}1' file2 file1

Regards

Wow! More power-users with just one line command. Thank you for the solutions everyone

The awk command above looks like Chinese language to me. I need to go online and dissect the function of each portion. I've seen some powerful awk commands here in this forum and don't know how others learned them. So many ways to do one thing in Linux. There must be a systematic way to learn the awk syntax and synosis ...

Thanks again.