Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 18:27 +0530 schrieb W.H. Kalpa Pathum: > 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. First, files must have the same pattern form, and be sorted (I assume you don't have "bill@xxxxxx" in file1 and "Bill <bill@xxxxxx>" in file2) sorting: $ sort file1>file1.sort $ sort file2>file2.sort Show what file1.sort contains but avoid entries in file2.sort: $ grep -f file2.sort -v file1.sort visual differences $ diff --side-by-side file1.sort file2.sort Greets! ---------------------------------------------- Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo - nospaze@xxxxxxxxx otbits.blogspot.com / counter.li.org: #367962 ---------------------------------------------- > hence the AIX boxen of increasing power [...] That phrasing reminded me of "Rodents of Unusual Size". -- Mike and Greg Andrews -- 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
