Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I compare two files but not in line-by-line basis on my CentOS server ? I mean say row#1 in file1 has the same data as say row#5 in file2 , but the comm compares them in line-by-line basis that is not intended . It seems that the diff cannot do the job as well . Thank you in advance
At 08:54 +0000 2/12/09, hadi motamedi wrote:
Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I compare two files but not in line-by-line basis on my CentOS server ? I mean say row#1 in file1 has the same data as say row#5 in file2 , but the comm compares them in line-by-line basis that is not intended . It seems that the diff cannot do the job as well
This'll show you which lines are common to both files, and for the ones that aren't which file they're in.
perl -MData::Dumper -le 'while(<>) {chomp; push @{$s->{"$_"}}, $ARGV}; END{ print Dumper($s) }' file1 file2
... someone will be along shortly with a more elegant method.
HTH
S.
hadi motamedi wrote:
Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I compare two files but not in line-by-line basis on my CentOS server ? I mean say row#1 in file1 has the same data as say row#5 in file2 , but the comm compares them in line-by-line basis that is not intended . It seems that the diff cannot do the job as well .
Diff should resync after showing the some lines have been inserted. If it shows that no lines match when you think that some do, it may mean the files have different line endings. Was one created under windows or transferred in a way that could change them?
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