On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:07:14PM -0700, Angus Lees wrote: > Since apparently I've been getting some experience with large datasets > lately, this version scales better: > > sort allusers.txt > sortedusers.txt > sort /etc/samba/smbpasswd | join -v1 -t: -o1.1 - sortedusers.txt | \ > xargs -n 1 smbpasswd -x
Yes, similarly if both files are simple and sorted, 'comm' is the 'standard' way to deal with this. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
