Hi William,
On Tuesday 15 Feb 2011, William Muriithi wrote:
> Pal,
>
[snip]
> I am trying to list files that exist on file1 that are missing on file2 and
> have the following script:
>
> #! /usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> #use warning;
>
> open MSRT, "/Users/williamm/Documents/file1" or die $
William Muriithi wrote:
Pal,
Hello,
I have to files that I am trying to match:
I think you mean two files?
Generated from rpm -qa> file1
file1
libstdc++-4.1.2-48.el5
info-4.8-14.el5
libICE-1.0.1-2.1
libacl-2.2.39-6.el5
lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2
dmidecode-2.10-3.el5
...
Generate f
What you should probably do is to use hashes.
Something like this:
1. Read the first file.
2. Split the each item of first file using an hyphen
3. Store the first item as the keys of hash say - file1_hash
4. Read the second file and store the items as the keys of a new hash say -
file2_hash
5. Lo
