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unix - compare fixed width files

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Name: Brijesh
Date: March 15, 2007 at 03:43:36 Pacific
OS: UNIX
CPU/Ram: Pentium
Product: Intel
Comment:

Hi,

I want to compare two fixed width files columnswise in unix. Both are large of around 1000+ columns.
Also columns are of different lengths within a file

Could somebody help me out



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Name: nails
Date: March 15, 2007 at 08:54:59 Pacific
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column parsing is generally in the realm of awk. 1000 columns might be too much for most Unix variants. You might need the GNU (linux) version of awk called gawk. All GNU tools are available at http://www.gnu.org.


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