Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:25:18 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to filter the contents of two text files .. Message-ID: <CEA88814-55BF-4302-8133-DBDABC7958CD@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20060807194014.GC4120@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20060807194014.GC4120@ns2.wananchi.com>
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On Aug 7, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > 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 .... See "man comm"; also note that you will have to sort the contents of files first. -- -Chuck
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