Need to Compare the two extacts

[reddykumar]

Hi

I need a shell script or perl script, Basically it needs to accepts two extract paths as inputs and comapre the two ouptputs (apple to apple) , Just we need to ensure that the extracts have the correct format and the content is also matching .

In Comparsion one would be  the baseline ( assume to be correct ) and other is new extract generated.. We just to need do some comaprions and give the output saying it is matching or not matching with the difference report..

Note: The file delimeter separted is "|"

Kinldy help me in designing the test script for this

Thanks for your time & highly appreciated

Reddy

[Patrick Wallek]

Have you looked at the 'diff' command?

[reddykumar]

Please can you help me in designing the shell script for this, accepting two paramters ... and checking the File headers and the Data content, if everything is macthing saying... "All the records are amcvthing" or else need to give the the rows where it is not matching

Thanks for your help much appreciated!

[Steven Schweda]

> Please can you help me [...]

   Probably not, unless you can explain exactly what you're trying to
do.

   My psychic powers are too weak to tell me what you mean by:
      The file delimeter separted is "|"
      File headers
      Data content

We non-psychics can't see your files, and probably can't guess exactly
what you wish to do with them.

   Still a good idea:
      man diff

If "diff" does not do what you want, then you might try (again?) to
explain exactly what you do want.

[Dennis Handly]

>can you help me in designing the shell script for this, accepting two parameters

As Patrick mentioned, look at diff(1).

If these two files are text files, you can do:

#!/usr/bin/sh

# Usage: $0 file1 file2

diff $1 $2

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

   echo "All the records are matching"

fi

The above scripts assumes the names of the files aren't in the files, which would be a difference to ignore.