On 9/13/07, Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 13, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > > > I think I may have a better solution. The file I'm trying to massage > > has a predecessor - the non-unique lines are the result of a > > concatenation of two files. > > > > Silly me, it's better to 'grep -v' with the one file vs. the second > > rather than trying to merge, sort and further massage the result. The > > fix will be to use sed against the first file to remove the ' NO', > > thus providing a clean argument for grepping the other file. > > Instead of grep -v take a look at comm. > > -j
Interesting! I just looked at the man page, and while I don't think it it's going to be directly useful (or I'm just not reading the page correctly), it's a new utility to me - I'll keep it in mind for other things. Thanks! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"