comparing two files yy.unl and xx.dat

[Jerry McAllister]

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> Hi all
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> I am new to shell scripts. I have a doubt. Please somebody help me.
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> Any explanation with example will be appreciated.
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> I try to compare 2 files xx.dat (data separated by comma) and yy.unl
> (data separated by |).
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> And if a record in xx.dat is not found in yy.unl then move that record
> to some database table like db2 table.

Well, I would be inclined to write a small Perl script for that.
If they both had the same separators there might be an easier way.
Of course, I suppose it would be easy to convert the commas to bars
or viceversa with sed and then work on it.  But Perl is so easy it would
be my choice.

////jerry

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