Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:26:43 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> To: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grepping a list of words Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20100813092643.00ee5c48@sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <201008131601.34182.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> References: <3.0.1.32.20100813084738.00ee5c48@sage-american.com> <867hjv92r2.fsf@gmail.com> <3.0.1.32.20100813084738.00ee5c48@sage-american.com>
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At 04:01 PM 8.13.2010 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: >On Friday 13 August 2010 15:47:38 Jack L. Stone wrote: > >> The only thing it didn't do for me was the next step. My final objective >> was to really determine the words in the "word.file" that were not in the >> "main.file." I figured finding matches would be easy and then could then >> run a sort|uniq comparison to determine the "new words" not yet in the >> main.file. >> >> Since I will have a need to run this check frequently, any suggestions for >> a better approach are welcome. > >sort -u and comm(1)? > >comm will compare two sorted files and produce up to three lists: of words >only in file one, of words only in file 2 and of words common to both files. >You can suppress any or all of the output lists. > >Jonathan >_______________________________________________ Jonathan: Thanks, I had forgotten about comm(1). Mehinks I am close to the solution to the whole issue now. Jack (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american
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