So basically what I want to do is compare two file by line by column 2. How could I accomplish this?
File_1.txt:
User1 US
User2 US
User3 US
File_2.txt:
User1 US
User2 US
User3 NG
Output_File:
User3 has changed
Look into the diff command. It's a good tool, and you can read all about it by typing man diff into your terminal.
The command you'll want to do is diff File_1.txt File_2.txt which will output the difference between the two and should look something like this:
A quick note on reading the output from the third command: The 'arrows' (< and >) refer to what the value of the line is in the left file (<) vs the right file (>), with the left file being the one you entered first on the command line, in this case File_1.txt
Additionally you might notice the 4th command is diff ... | tee Output_File this pipes the results from diff into a tee, which then puts that output into a file, so that you can save it for later if you don't want to view it all on the console right that second.
