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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091202/0a8fcb6b/attachment-0005.html>