Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:13:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to filter the contents of two text files .. Message-ID: <20060807201311.GA69605@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20060807194014.GC4120@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20060807194014.GC4120@ns2.wananchi.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 07), Odhiambo Washington said: > Some little help is needed here ... > > I have two text files, each has just a single column of data > > FileA has 2798 entries, while FileB has 4242 entries; There are > entries in FileA that are also in FileB... > > I'd like to filter against the two files, so I only get those entries > in FileB that don't occur only in FileA .... If your files are sorted, you can use the 'comm' command. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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