Hi, I am trying to compare two files which have content like
/dir1/file1
/dir1/file2
/dir1/file3

with another file which has content like
/dir2/file1
/dir2/file2
/dir2/file3

I need to compare each line in file tst1 with corresponding line in file tst2 and determine if they are same , that is find out if there is any difference in thier content , but i am ending up with errors ,compare file in tst1 and file 1 in tst2 , compare file2 in tst1 and file2 in tst2 and so on. could anyone pls help me as i am a very intermittent user of scripting 
#! /usr/bin/perl
open (IF,"<tst1");
open (IF2,"<tst2");
my(@tst1) = <IF>;
my(@tst2) = <IF2>;
my ($i);
my ($j);
foreach $i (@tst1)
{
 chomp($i);
 print "$i\n";
 foreach $j (@tst2)
 {
 chomp($j);
 print "$j\n";
 `diff $i $j > /dev/null`;
 `echo $?`;
 }
}
close(IF);
close(IF2);

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In reply to compare two files line by line and perform a diff on each coressponding line by dilip_val

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