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On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 01:28:33AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Jeri Raye <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

I have a file allwords.txt.
And I have another file mywords.txt

How can I filter the differences, and safe them in another file called
difwords.txt?

Example:
+------ allwords.txt -------+
James
Richard
Anna
Claude
Ben
+------------+

+------mywords.txt-----+
Anna
Ben
+-------------------+

This should then make the following file

+------difwords.txt-----+
James
Richard
Claude
+-----------+


It has been a long time since you posted this. I am not sure if you found
the solution already. But since this is a problem I frequently encounter, I
made a perl script to solve it. You can download it from
https://sourceforge.net/p/rajuutils/code/ci/master/tree/perl/overlap/ . By
default, it operates on two files setA.txt, setB.txt. The output is stored
in "out" directory.

For example, with the following input files

rajulocal@hogwarts:~/work/rutils/perl/overlap$ cat setA.txt
James
Richard
Anna
Claude
Ben
rajulocal@hogwarts:~/work/rutils/perl/overlap$ cat setB.txt
Anna
Ben
Jeff
Raju

Run the script

rajulocal@hogwarts:~/work/rutils/perl/overlap$ ./overlap.pl
set            count  pct
A              5  0.71
B              4  0.57
A or B         7  1.00
A and B        2  0.29
A - B          3  0.43
B - A          2  0.29
notA and notB  0  0.00
storing output files under out directory

The output files are as follows:
rajulocal@hogwarts:~/work/rutils/perl/overlap$ ls out/
out_AandB.txt  out_AorB.txt  out_notAnotB.txt  out_onlyA.txt  out_onlyB.txt

In this case, the file you are interested in is out_onlyA.txt

rajulocal@hogwarts:~/work/rutils/perl/overlap$ cat out/out_onlyA.txt
Claude
James
Richard

hth
raju
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