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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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}
Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby
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