Hi,
I have a script to compare 2 files.
file1=$1
file2=$2
num_of_records_file1=`awk ' END { print NR } ' $file1`
num_of_records_file2=`awk ' END { print NR } ' $file2`
i=1
while [ $i -le $num_of_records_file1 ]
do
sed -n "$i"p $file1 > file1_temp
sed -n "$i"p $file2 > file2_temp
diff file1_temp file2_temp>file_temp
echo "Comparing $i line of fil1 with file2:"
awk NR==2 file_temp|sed 's/</Old:/g'
awk NR==4 file_temp|sed 's/>/New:/g'
i=`expr $i + 1`
done
It gives o/p like
Comparing line no. 1 of file1 with file2
old:
New:
I want to direct the o/p of the script to a log file which should be saved as <filename>.log
e.g If here file1 is personel,the log file should be personel.log
Thanks In advance