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'File A' has list of university ranked in year let's say 2018, 'File B' has list of university ranked in year 2017,

File A (2018 Rankings):

University of Oxford University of Cambridge California Institute of Technology Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology

File B (2017 Rankings):

University of Oxford California Institute of Technology Stanford University University of Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology

'Stanford University' is ranked 4th in 2018, whereas it was 3rd in 2017. So, I want an output of files which contains only the university ranked in 2017, which went above Stanford in 2018 rankings, similarly, list of university which was ranked in 2017 which went below Stanford in 2018 rankings.

Expected output should contain two files having data on,

**Ranked above Stanford: ** University of Cambridge **Ranked below Stanford: ** NONE

NONE - As no university was ranked above stanford in 2017 rankings went below standford in 2018 rankings.

I want to be able to do this for any university mentioned in the list.

Data entered here are snippets from huge data files, they contain 1000+ lists of university ranked. I want to analyze this for few university only.

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    Which d of file B should be used? And why line by line -- there seems to be only one line? And put it in the question. Honestly. Commented Sep 8, 2017 at 10:39
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    You could most certainly paste some sample data here; change university names to Looney Tune characters or something else unique; make sure it maps to the output you expect. Commented Sep 8, 2017 at 11:08
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    provide sample data and expected output. I would suggest you to use diff command for comparing two files. Commented Sep 8, 2017 at 11:27
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    If you throw out the current examples and replace them with samples that a) have fewer lines per file and b) use shorter, easier to read dummy entries while still illustrating your intent plus you add output that shows exactly what you expect .... you are sure to get the answer you seek. Commented Sep 8, 2017 at 12:38
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    Answer given by @AFSHIN solves my problem perfectly. Commented Sep 8, 2017 at 19:22

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Below answer after question clarified in correct way, here is the final solution for that:

awk -F'\n' -v RS='Stanford University' 'NR==1 && NR==FNR{for (i=1;i<NF;i++)above[$i]++;next} NR==2&&NR==FNR{for (j=2;j<NF;j++)below[$j]++;next} NR==3{for (x=1;x<NF;x++)X2017[$x]++;next} NR==4{for (y=2;y<NF;y++)Y2017[$y]++;next} END{ for (Z in Y2017) {if (Z in above) print Z>"Ranked-above.txt" }; for (T in X2017) {if (T in below) print T>"Ranked-below.txt" }; }' 2018 2017

The output would be two files Ranked-above.txt and Ranked-below.txt with expected result.

**Ranked-above.txt** University of Cambridge **Ranked-below.txt**

You can search for another Universities with specifying in RS='University NAME HERE'

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  • Thank you fro the response, but this just separates the lines above/below 'd' in each file. What I want is, for a given rank for 'University X' in file A, the list of university which has gone up/down the rank in 'file b' when compared with rank of 'University X' 'file B'? Commented Sep 8, 2017 at 11:20
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    WOW! Perfect,Thank you :) How to learn shell/awk/grep to solve things like these on my own? -_- PS:-I tried to upvote the answer, but I don't have required 15 credits yet :( Commented Sep 8, 2017 at 19:18
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    @CCC first think by yourself that all you need to resolve your problem never you can find anywhere completely, so you should devide your problem to small parts of questions, then find answers for them, finally you can combine all those together and resolve your problem : ) where you should seee and learn scripting? Here or other stackoverflow.com great sites. Ps. for reputation now you have privileges : ) Commented Sep 9, 2017 at 3:01
  • Thank you, I have done the needful. I mean even to learn basic scripting/awk in a structured focused way. Internet is useful, but sometimes one can easily get lost and scattered all around. Commented Sep 9, 2017 at 11:45
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    I can suggest to see this post Is there a basic tutorial for grep, awk and sed? Commented Sep 10, 2017 at 8:32
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This is not an answer to your question in the sense that it doesn't produce the output that you required. It does however produce a table of changes in ranks between the lines in the two files.

The following awk program will output the change in ranking between the two files like this:

$ awk -f script.awk rankings-2017.txt rankings-2018.txt University of Oxford +2 University of Cambridge -1 California Institute of Technology -1 Stanford University NEW Uppsala University -1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

("Uppsala University" was added on the second to last row of the second file).

The script:

NR == FNR { rank[++n] = $0 } NR != FNR { ++nn; for (i = 1; i <= n; ++i) { if (rank[i] == $0) { if (i == nn) { printf(" "); } else { printf("%+3d", i - nn); } printf("\t%s\n", $0); next; } } printf("NEW\t%s\n", $0); }
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    Thank you for spending time and answering. Doesn't matter if it didn't give a desired output! This is very useful, as my next problem was to find the change in ranking for each university!! Thank you again. PS:- Not able to upvote the answer as my reputation is less than 15. Commented Sep 8, 2017 at 19:28
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    @CCC Come back later ;-) Commented Sep 8, 2017 at 19:35

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