But "#diff -y" compares the two files in line-by-line basis . But my two files do not have one-to-one correspondence , say row#1 in file1 maybe the same as say row#5 in file2 . So I seek a way that does not consider this as a difference (but diff will consider). On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Brian McKerr <bmckerr at gmail.com> wrote: > diff -y ? > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Simon Banton <centos at web.org.uk> wrote: > >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091202/53d1d591/attachment-0004.html>