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Question

How can 2 unsorted text files of different lengths be display side by side (in columns) in a shell

Given one.txt and two.txt :

$ cat one.txt
apple
pear
longer line than the last two
last line

$ cat two.txt
The quick brown fox..
foo
bar 
linux

skipped a line

Display:

apple                               The quick brown fox..
pear                                foo
longer line than the last two       bar 
last line                           linux

                                    skipped a line

paste one.txt two.txt almost does the trick but doesn't align the columns nicely as it just prints one tab between column 1 and 2. I know how to this with emacs and vim but want the output displayed to stdout for piping ect.

The solution I came up with uses sdiff and then pipes to sed to remove the output sdiff adds.

sdiff one.txt two.txt | sed -r 's/[<>|]//;s/(\\t){3}//'

I could create a function and stick it in my .bashrc but surely a command for this exists already (or a cleaner solution potentially)?

Answer 1

You can use pr to do this, using the -m flag to merge the files, one per column, and -t to omit headers, eg.

pr -m -t one.txt two.txt

outputs:

apple                               The quick brown fox..
pear                                foo
longer line than the last two       bar
last line                           linux

                                    skipped a line

See Also:

• Print command result side by side
• Combine text files column-wise

Answer 2

To expand a bit on @Hasturkun 's answer: by default pr uses only 72 columns for its output, but it's relatively easy to make it use all available columns of your terminal window:

pr -w $COLUMNS -m -t one.txt two.txt

Most shell's will store (and update) your terminal's screenwidth in the $COLUMNS environment variable, so we're just passing that value on to pr to use for its output's width setting.

This also answers @Matt 's question:

Is there a way for pr to auto-detect screen width?

So, no: pr itself can't detect the screenwidth, but we're helping out a bit by passing in the terminal's width via the -w option.

Answer 3

If you know the input files have no tabs, then using expand simplifies @oyss 's answer :

paste one.txt two.txt | expand --tabs=50

If there could be tabs in the input files, you can always expand first:

paste <(expand one.txt) <(expand two.txt) | expand --tabs=50

Answer 4

paste one.txt two.txt | awk -F'\t' '{
    if (length($1)>max1) {max1=length($1)};
    col1[NR] = $1; col2[NR] = $2 }
    END {for (i = 1; i<=NR; i++) {printf ("%-*s     %s\n", max1, col1[i], col2[i])}
}'

Using * in a format specification allows you to supply the field length dynamically.

Answer 5

There is a sed way:

f1width=$(wc -L <one.txt)
f1blank="$(printf "%${f1width}s" "")"
paste one.txt two.txt |
    sed "
        s/^\(.*\)\t/\1$f1blank\t/;
        s/^\(.\{$f1width\}\) *\t/\1 /;
    "

Under bash , you could use printf -v :

f1width=$(wc -L <one.txt)
printf -v f1blank "%${f1width}s"
paste one.txt two.txt |
    sed "s/^\(.*\)\t/\1$f1blank\t/;
         s/^\(.\{$f1width\}\) *\t/\1 /;"

_{(Of course @Hasturkun 's solution pr is the most accurate !)} :

Advantage of sed over pr

You can finely choose separation width and or separators:

f1width=$(wc -L <one.txt)
(( f1width += 4 ))         # Adding 4 spaces
printf -v f1blank "%${f1width}s"
paste one.txt two.txt |
    sed "s/^\(.*\)\t/\1$f1blank\t/;
         s/^\(.\{$f1width\}\) *\t/\1 /;"

Or, for sample, to mark lines containing line :

f1width=$(wc -L <one.txt)
printf -v f1blank "%${f1width}s"
paste one.txt two.txt |
    sed "s/^\(.*\)\t/\1$f1blank\t/;
  /line/{s/^\(.\{$f1width\}\) *\t/\1 |ln| /;ba};
         s/^\(.\{$f1width\}\) *\t/\1 |  | /;:a"

will render:

apple                         |  | The quick brown fox..
pear                          |  | foo
longer line than the last two |ln| bar 
last line                     |ln| linux
                              |  | 
                              |ln| skipped a line

Answer 6

从 Barmar 的答案中删除动态字段长度计数将使其成为一个更短的命令......但您仍然需要至少一个脚本来完成无论您选择什么方法都无法避免的工作。

paste one.txt two.txt |awk -F'\t' '{printf("%-50s %s\n",$1,$2)}'

Answer 7

If you want to know the actual difference between two files side by side, use diff -y :

diff -y file1.cf file2.cf

You can also set an output width using the -W, --width=NUM option:

diff -y -W 150 file1.cf file2.cf

and to make diff 's column output fit your current terminal window:

diff -y -W $COLUMNS file1.cf file2.cf

Answer 8

Find below a python based solution.

import sys

# Specify the number of spaces between the columns
S = 4

# Read the first file
l0 = open( sys.argv[1] ).read().split('\n')

# Read the second file
l1 = open( sys.argv[2] ).read().split('\n')

# Find the length of the longest line of the first file
n = len(max(l0, key=len))

# Print the lines
for i in  xrange( max( len(l0), len(l1) ) ):

    try:
        print l0[i] + ' '*( n - len(l0[i]) + S) + l1[i]
    except:
        try:
            print ' ' + ' '*( n - 1 + S) + l1[i]
        except:
            print l0[i]

Example

apple                            The quick brown fox..
pear                             foo
longer line than the last two    bar 
last line                        linux

                                 skipped a line

Answer 9

diff -y <file1> <file2>


[root /]# cat /one.txt

apple
pear
longer line than the last two
last line

[root /]# cat /two.txt

The quick brown fox..
foo
bar
linux

[root@RHEL6-64 /]# diff -y one.txt two.txt

apple                                                         | The quick brown fox..
pear                                                          | foo
longer line than the last two                                 | bar
last line                                                     | linux