On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Terry Polzin <foxec208@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 18:27 +0530, W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: >> hi, >> >> I've got two text files containing email addresses one at a row. The >> number of rows in one file is different from the number of the other >> file. email addresses in one file is already there in the other file >> (there are some more also). What I want to do is extract the list >> which is not in the other file. >> >> elaboration >> >> File A has 100 email addresses and file B has 15 email addresses. 15 >> email addresses in file B are already there in file A. I want to >> extract the 85 mails (excluding the 15 from file B) from file A. >> >> Any idea on how to accomplish this? > diff -b file_a file_b nope it didn't help. it lists all rows in file A and then all rows in file B. What I want is to list rows in File A excluding the rows similar to those are in File B > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- W.H.Kalpa Pathum ............................................... http://kalpapathum.blogspot.com http://thiraya.wordpress.com http://www.twitter.com/callkalpa ............................................... -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
