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diff marking each line as old, new, or unchanged
I need to diff two unsorted text files with the output marking every line as either old, new, or unchanged. The marks should appear at the beginning or end of the line, and there should be no other ...
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How to highlight output from diff command and make them side by side?
I have two files
$ cat file1.txt
UUXX:1
UUXX:2
$ cat file2.txt
UUXX:3
UUXX:1
I want to use this command
$ diff --old-group-format=$'\e[0;31m%<\e[0m' --new-group-format=$'\e[0;31m%>\e[0m' --...
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Bash Script for showing difference between two text files
Lets say I have two lists:
guests-2016.txt:
Peter
Michael
Frank
Dirk
guests-2017.txt:
Mark
Michael
Dirk
Lilly
How may I create two new lists of guests
Guests that were in guests-2016.txt but are ...
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Comparing two files and writing mismatched rows along with mismatched columns. Pointing out the mismatched columns is my main problem statement
I got a requirement where I need to compare two files wrt to each columns and write the corresponding difference in another file along with some identification showing mismatched columns. Pointing out ...
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Error messages are not getting displayed while comparing the datatypes from 2 files in shell script
We have a requirement to compare the datatypes.
I have created .txt files with datatypes and wrote a query to get the datatypes from the netezza system table (we are using netezza database) and ...
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differentiating two files and getting the unique output in third one
I'm very new to shell scripting and learning it now.
I have two files.
File 1:
1 StartInstall, CDM_2.5B263, OK
2 EndInstall, CDM_2.5B263, SUCCESS
3 StartPatch, CDM_2.5.0.2B1, OK ...
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Search directories for multi line string
Looking for a way to recursively search a repository for all files containing a multi line string and return the file names that contain it. The paragraph is just a header approx 30 lines.
So I know ...
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Find differences in file and sorting file by key
So I have two language files, english and french. They are in this format:
key=translation
An example in English would be:
ui.title=My Title
And in French:
ui.title=Mon Titre
So I need a script ...
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compare files line by line and create new one bash programming
I have two text files. File 2 has logs over 1,000,000. File 1 has IP addresses line by line. I want to read file 2 lines and search these lines in file 1, I mean:
file 1:
34.123.21.32
45.231.43.21
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Reading two files into an IFS while loop -- Is there a way to get a zero diff result in this case?
I have a text file full of several hundred lines of sequences like this:
b 29.
b 52.
c 84.
c 83.
c 94.
c 93.
c 61.
b 38.
c 81.
c 92.
c 28.
c 37.
c ...
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