On Mon, Nov 25, 2013, at 7:54, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 08:59:44PM +1100, Andrew Greig wrote:
Thanks for the reply, I found a way to create the list of software for each machine using rpm -qa and then piped to a log file.
I now have each log file copied into a spreadsheet side by side Column A and Column B (text in B is red), I appended Bito column A and then
the spreadsheet was probably a mistake. text files are easier to work with and compare.
save the sorted data to two text files, one for each machine. ideal format would be one software package per line, with package name and version number.
then use diff. comparing two text files is precisely what it is for.
And the utility 'join' can also come in handy for tasks like this, especially if there's other data for each entry and a field that can act like a key. -- Smiles, Les. -- Les Kitchen (LUV) ljk+luv at domain ljk.id.au via fastmail.fm