How to filter the contents of two text files ..

[Dan Nelson]

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.

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	Dan Nelson
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