Ash wrote: > I have a text file (list 1) that has 10,000 records in it (addresses) > and another that has 15,000 records (list 2). List 2 contains all the > records that List 1 does. I need to get the 5,000 records that are in > list 2 but not in list 1. > > I tried comm -3 list\ 1 list\ 2 > > But it gave me back 25000 records. Comm -1 and comm -2 give 15000 and > 10000 respectively. > > Any other way to do it?
diff the 2 files. just make sure that you sort each file properly. -- thebigdog _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
