Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 23:22:36 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: text processing, excluding common lines Message-ID: <20030209052236.GE5356@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030209050856.GA55816@babylon.polands.org> References: <20030209050856.GA55816@babylon.polands.org>
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In the last episode (Feb 08), Doug Poland said: > Hi, > > Anyone know a command-line tool (or tools piped together) that > could achieve the following results. Given... > > % cat fileA > line1 > line2 > line3 > > % cat fileB > line2 > line4 > line5 > > % cat fileC > line1 > line4 > line6 > line7 > > 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...) > > So my desired result would be: > > line6 > line7 cat fileA fileB | sort | comm -13 - fileC -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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