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[Mag0007]

I have a 2 files.

File A has this:
1234
4321
3245

File B has this:
4321
3245
1233
1234

I want to see if File A has the same data (not order) as File B

 

[denisl]

cmp

$ cmp filea fileb
filea fileb differ: char 4, line 1
$ echo $?
1
$ cp filea fileb
$ cmp filea fileb
$ echo $?
0

 

[SamBones]

The command [tt]comm[/tt] can be used to compare the files and show you the differences between them. The files need to be sorted first, but [tt]comm[/tt] will give three columns of output, 1) lines only in filea, 2) lines only in fileb, and 3) lines in both files. You can supply a command line option to suppress any of these columns to make a file with what you want.

Assuming they're sorted...

$ comm fileA fileB
        1233
                1234
                3245
                4321
$# Lines common to both
$ comm -12 fileA fileB
1234
3245
4321
$# Lines only in fileB
$ comm -13 fileA fileB
1233
$# Lines only in fileA
$ comm -23 fileA fileB
$

Hope this helps.

 

[Mag0007]

wow! cool command....

thanks!