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Old 04-07-2009
File comparition

cat file1

xxabcd.p
xxmcqe.p
xxabpc.p
xxcmaa.p
xxjlkps.p

cat file2

xxabcd.r
xxmcqe.r
xxabdc.r
xxcmaa.r
xxjlkps.r

Instead of .p .r in the file2,
My question is
compare the file1 and file2
1. Except .r and .p difference is ok,any other miss match it should give false
2. Otherwise give the result as true.

Kindly give the command or script for this.
# 2  
Old 04-07-2009
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
#
# Everything output between "(" and ")" is piped to sort later
(
# Remove suffix from each filename in each file
cat file1|while read FILENAME
do
        basename "${FILENAME}" ".p"
done
cat file2|while read FILENAME
do
        basename "${FILENAME}" ".r"
done
# Eliminate prefixes which appear in both files
) | sort | uniq -u | while read F
do
        # Reverse lookup the original filename
        grep \^"${F}\." file1
        grep \^"${F}\." file2
done


# ./scriptname
xxabdc.r
xxabpc.p

Last edited by methyl; 04-07-2009 at 12:57 PM..
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