How to Arrange string data if both data have different spellings

Posted on February 18, 2022

I’ve been given a task to sort 1400 city names which has wrong spellings. with another data which has the right spellings. I want the result to be shown as the right and wrong data alligned together next to each other.

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Bobby

February 18, 2022

Hello,

It would really depend on the data, but what you could do is try and use the following Bash script:

#!/bin/bash

# A file containing the city list with the wrong names:
wrong_names=wrong.txt

# A file containing the city list with the right names:
right_names=right.txt

# Sort the files:
wrong_names_sorted=$(cat ${wrong_names} | sort > wrong_names_sorted.txt)
right_names_sorted=$(cat ${right_names} | sort > right_names_sorted.txt)

# Compare the two sorted files side by side:

sdiff ${wrong_names_sorted} ${right_names_sorted}