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unix - compare fixed width files

Original Message

Name: Brijesh
Date: March 15, 2007 at 03:43:36 Pacific
Subject: unix - compare fixed width files
OS: UNIX
CPU/Ram: Pentium
Model/Manufacturer: 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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Response Number 1

Name: nails
Date: March 15, 2007 at 08:54:59 Pacific
Subject: unix - compare fixed width files

Reply: (edit)

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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