I need to compare two files: Basically I have an input file fileA. which need to be compare with fileb located in /etc/lc/mbd directroy Both file format is like: abc01def:10.80.11.123 The input file format is: abc01mns:10.80.11.1 dbc02mns:10.80.11.2 fbc01mns:10.80.11.3 rbc01mns:10.80.11.4 tbc01mps:10.80.11.5 abt05mns:10.80.11.6 zbc11mys:10.80.11.7 ttc01mns:10.80.11.8 hbc05mns:10.80.11.9 qbc01mns:10.80.11.10 So after comparison the script will say: what has been dupicate and what not duplicate. Thanks

I made something but I'm not sure if it's what you want. For example if your fileA has A B C F Z and the fileB has A B F y the duplicates would be A, B, F but for the differences do you want what is in fileA but not fileB or the other way? That bit of info would be of great help. --------- EDIT I think I have something for you --------- @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set f1=H:\test\fileA.txt set f2=H:\test\fileB.txt set dupout=H:\test\duplicate.txt set uniout=H:\test\unique.txt for /f "usebackq tokens=* %%a in ("%f1%") do ( set dif=2 for /f "usebackq tokens=* %%b in ("%f2%") do ( if %%a==%%b ( @echo %%a>>%dupout% set dif=1 ) ) if !dif!==2 echo %%a >> %uniout% ) echo unique to %f1% >> %uniout% pause --------- set f1 to the input file set f2 to the file you wish to compare to set dupout to the file where duplicate entries will be listed set uniout to the file where entries unique to f1 will be listed edited script to work with file paths that contain spaces, I love Judago for teaching me how to do that.

basically the output would tell me what not match between file1 and file2. As I mentioned earlier both file formats are same" abc01mns:10.80.11.1 dbc02mns:10.80.11.2 fbc01mns:10.80.11.3 I tried the code you have sent me but NO LUCK. $ ./Comp2FileA ./Comp2FileA: @echo: not found ./Comp2FileA[2]: setlocal: not found ./Comp2FileA[9]: syntax error at line 11 : `"usebackq tokens=* %%a in ("%f1%") do ( set dif=2 for /f "usebackq' unexpecte

I'm guessing from what you have there you didn't put the exact path of the file in the script. Could you post what you have for the script, that would help greatly.

Here what I have : @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set f1=fileA set f2= /export/hm/dbpd.db set dupout=duplicate.txt set uniout=unique.txt for /f "usebackq tokens=* %%a in ("%f1%") do ( set dif=2 for /f "usebackq tokens=* %%b in ("%f2%") do ( if %%a==%%b ( @echo %%a>>%dupout% set dif=1 ) ) if !dif!==2 echo %%a >> %uniout% ) echo unique to %f1% >> %uniout% pause ############## output with error: $ ./Comp2FileA ./Comp2FileA: @echo: not found ./Comp2FileA[2]: setlocal: not found ./Comp2FileA[9]: syntax error at line 11 : `"usebackq tokens=* %%a in ("%f1%") do ( set dif=2 for /f "usebackq' unexpected

well i solved the problem. Sorry I didn't see you are running Solaris. I wrote up a batch script for Windows. I guess you'll have to wait till someone with Solaris know how comes along. Sorry again