On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens@xplanation.com> wrote:
On 2009-12-02 11:10, hadi motamedi wrote:
> Thank you very much for your reply . This code actually solved my
> problem and returned exact matches between the two files (irrespective
> of their location in the files) . As I understood , it will list each
> data showing to which file it belongs (or it is common to both files) .
> It is really what I wanted .

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You could do the same by first sorting the two files, and then use "comm".


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The two files are assorted ones , but the comm will compare them in line-by-line basis . If row#1 in file1 is equal to say row#5 in file2 , so I want it not to being considered as a difference .