Compare and Differentiate Multiple Files

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Im using code below comparing and getting the diff of two files.
But what about multiple files? can you help me guys

diff -u file1 file2|sed -n '/^---/!{/^-/s/-//p}'
diff -ui file1 file2| sed -n '/^++/!{/^+/s/+//p}'

Example
File1:

aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd

File2:

bbb
eee

File3:

bbb
ccc
ddd

Output.

File1 File2 File3 has bbb
File 1 doesnt have eee
File 2 doesnt aaa ccc ddd
File3 doesnt have aaa eee

Output:

Common Line bbb
etc etc . . .
2

Hello,

Could you please try following code.

awk 'FILENAME==ARGV[1] {a[$1]=$1;next} !($1 in a){p[$1 " NOT in file1"]=$1 " NOT in file1"} FILENAME==ARGV[2] {b[$1]=$1;next} !($1 in b) {p[$1 " NOT in file2"]= $1 " NOT in file2"} FILENAME==ARGV[3] {c[$1]=$1;next} !($1 in c){p[$1 " NOT in file3"]=$1 " NOT in file3"} FILENAME==ARGV[4] {d[$1]=$1;next} !($1 in d){p[$1 " NOT in file1"]=$1 " NOT in file1"} END{for(u in p){print p}}' file*

Output will be as follows.

aaa NOT in file2
aaa NOT in file3
eee NOT in file1
ddd NOT in file2
ccc NOT in file2

Thanks,
R. Singh

3

Hi Ravin,
Thank you, but i hope at least it will show what is the common line.
thanks

4

Try

echo common line: $(comm -12 file1 file2 | comm -12 - file3)
common line: bbb
coerdtr@RudisPC:/mnt/9/playground$ for i in 1 2 3; do echo file$i doesn\'t have $(sort -u file[1-3] | comm -23 - file$i); done
file1 doesn't have eee
file2 doesn't have aaa ccc ddd
file3 doesn't have aaa eee
5

Thanks guys...

6

You can identify identical files using cksum.

$ find topdir -type f | xargs cksum -n99 | sort | while read c s n
do
 if [ "$c $s" = "$csl" ]
  then
   echo "$csn$c $s $n"
   csn=''
  else
   csn="$c $s $n
"
  fi
 csl="$c $s"
done | pg