topic Re: diff but .... in Operating System - HP-UX

diff but ....

f. halili — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:08:31 GMT

i want to see the difference between two files ( file1 & file2 ), but i want only to see the lines that are unique on file2.

thanks,
f. halili

Re: diff but ....

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:15:30 GMT

Hi:

# diff f1 f2|grep ">"

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: diff but ....

f. halili — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:35:01 GMT

worked great! thanks!

Re: diff but ....

Biswajit Tripathy — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:28:23 GMT

That solution would work if you don't have '>' char as part of any unique line in file1. A better solution would be :

# diff f1 f2 | grep "^>"

- Biswajit

Re: diff but ....

john korterman — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:48:44 GMT

Hi,

if the two files are sorted, this should also produce the correct result:

$ comm -13 file1 file2

regards,
John K.

Re: diff but ....

f. halili — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:27:23 GMT

thanks everyone. all worked well.