#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; @ARGV == 2 and -f $ARGV[0] or die "Usage: $0 list1 list2\n"; my ( $list1, $list2 ) = @ARGV; my %pathname_versions; open( IN, $list1 ) or die "$list1: $!"; while () { next unless ( m:(.+?)#(\d+)$: ); $pathname_versions{$1}{$2} = undef; } print Dumper( \%pathname_versions ); open( IN, $list2 ) or die "$list2: $!"; while () { next unless ( m:(.+?)#(\d+)$: ); #print "\nLIST 2:$1 $2"; if ( exists( $pathname_versions{$1} )) { if ($2 < pathname_versions{$1}{$2} ) {#if the version in list2 is less than version for the same path in list1 print "$1 pathname_versions{$1}{2}->$2"; } if ( exists( $pathname_versions{$1}{$2} )) { # we have a match on version# as well, so... } else { # version number wasn't seen in list1, so... } } }