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Date:      Sun, 9 Feb 2003 18:21:33 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: text processing, excluding common lines
Message-ID:  <20030209052133.GA46926@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20030209050856.GA55816@babylon.polands.org>
References:  <20030209050856.GA55816@babylon.polands.org>

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On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:08:56PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:

[...]
> I would like to see all the lines in fileC that are not in fileA or
> fileB.  In my case, I may be seraching against many files, i.e., 
> (A,B,C,etc...)
> 

How about:

    cat fileA fileB | sort | comm -1 -3 - fileC

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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