two files comparison

[agilo]

Hi,

I have the following two files.

File1:

x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
name1 12 34 43 3
name2 44 34 76 76
name3 21 23 21 23
name4 5 67 76 76

and File2:

x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
name1 12 34 43 3
name3 21 23 21 23
name7 32 43 23 32

I want to write out the missing lines from Files2 (which exist in File1) and the added (new)lines in File2 (which do not exist in File1) into two seperate output files.

Any ideas are welcomed...

Thanks in advance,

Agilo

 

[PHV]

man comm

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[agilo]

Hi PHV,

first thank you for your reply. It seems the comm command can do it. I tried the three options to seperate the added/removed lines from both files into two different files but unfortunately no success. Could you please help.

Thankx in advance

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
comm -23 file1 file2 > file1only # missing from file2
comm -13 file1 file2 > file2only # new in file2

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[johnherman]

have you considered the unix commands diff or sdiff?
man sdiff

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[agilo]

Thanks Guys,
the output of the comm command matches better my requirments.

agilo