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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:12:34 -0500
From:      Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
To:        Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Scripting question
Message-ID:  <13D9DDEB-5AC6-4E2C-93F3-40054A97E3C9@goldmark.org>
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References:  <a9f4a3860709131016w54c12b6fy94fc2b0f286aea3d@mail.gmail.com> <20070913172001.GA78799@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <a9f4a3860709131032q21bfefc2hf8d78cae53637576@mail.gmail.com> <20070913175510.GA78984@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <a9f4a3860709131119h2d7589aej59587749bb1fa2ef@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sep 13, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote:

> I think I may have a better solution. The file I'm trying to massage
> has a predecessor - the non-unique lines are the result of a
> concatenation of two files.
>
> Silly me, it's better to 'grep -v' with the one file vs. the second
> rather than trying to merge, sort and further massage the result. The
> fix will be to use sed against the first file to remove the ' NO',
> thus providing a clean argument for grepping the other file.

Instead of grep -v take a look at comm.

-j



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