On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:18, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > Suppose file A has: > AAA > BBB > DUPLICATE > CCC > > and file B has > 111 > DUPLICATE > 222 > 333 > > I'd like to combine the two files without changing the order of the > lines AND without including duplicate lines, so the end result might be > something like this: > 111 > DUPLICATE > 222 > 333 > AAA > BBB > CCC > Did you try grep -v -f
Something like this : grep -f file1.txt -v file2.txt > file2a.txt && cat file1.txt file2a.txt seems to work for your trivial example. Regards Tony Sauri -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
