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jammer

2007-12-17, 1:29 pm

I have two files that are lists.
I want to find out what is in the second list but not in the first
list.
I played around with diff but I don't think it'll do what I want.
I'm thinking awk.
Bit Twister

2007-12-17, 1:29 pm

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:21:07 -0800 (PST), jammer wrote:
> I have two files that are lists.
> I want to find out what is in the second list but not in the first
> list.
> I played around with diff but I don't think it'll do what I want.
> I'm thinking awk.

I'm thinking grep -v -f first.list second.list



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