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Old 01-27-2009
Comparing file names to text document
Hi All,
I'm really new to Unix scripts and commands but i think i'm eventually getting the hang of some of it.
I have a task which is to create some kind of script which compares the file names in a directory, with the associated file name in a .txt file. We send out some data and Unix has a problem with mixed case file names so i want to run the scrip to compare them before it goes out.
Could anyone give me any hints on how to go about this?

The directory might contain
rivers.TAB
sea.TAB

and the txt file called usa.mdf may contain
<Table>rivers.tab</Table>

Therefore i want to highlight any differences in the 2. Would this be pretty difficult to do?
Many thanks for reading -
Gareth
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Old 01-27-2009
We also are using Solaris 9 if that helps. Smilie
 
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