Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to compare two files but not in line-by-line basis?

John Doe wrote:

From: hadi motamedi motamedi24@gmail.com

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Can you please do me favor and let me know if I can go further and try for advanced search like finding how many rows inside a file have data that does not start with a zero after the third comma ?

Something like: awk -F, ' { print $4 } ' | grep -v "^0" | wc -l Use one command at a time to see how they work with each other (you might have to modify the grep a bit)...

*sigh*

Drive me crazy, why use multiple commands?

awk -F 'BEGIN { FS = ","; }{if ( $3 !~ /^0 ) { count++; }} END { print count }' filename

mark "why, yes, since you ask, I *have* written 100 and 200 line awk scripts"