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Old 08-14-2007
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline
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Your example seems to be backwards from your worded request. List1 should be Tom John?

Anyway, one way to do what you seem to ask
Code:
grep -v -f List2 List1> newlist1; mv newlist1 List1
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