Shell Programming and Scripting

So, this issue is driving me nuts! I was hoping to get a lending hand here...

I have 2 files:

file1.txt contains:
this is example1
this is example2
this is example3
this is example4
this is example5

file2.txt contains:
example3
example5

Basically, I need a script or command to generate a new file which contains only the lines that DON'T exist on file2.txt, ideally, the resulting file would look like this:

fileX.txt:
this is example1
this is example2
this is example4

I really appreciate your help, I can't seem to figure this one out..

Thanks a lot!

Dave

you can try something like this

Code:

grep -v -f file2.txt file1.txt

I thought about that, but it takes forever... the files that I'm working with are quite large.

Is there a better way to accomplish this?

Thanks again!

Dave

Code:

#! /usr/bin/perl 

open FILE, "/path/to/file1.txt"  or die "can't open file: $!\n";
while (<FILE>) {
        chomp;
    	push (@array_one, $_);
	}

open FILE, "/path/to/file2.txt"  or die "can't open file: $!\n";
while (<FILE>) {
        chomp;
        push (@array_two, $_);
        }

my @C = grep { my $x = $_; not grep { $x =~ /\Q$_/i } @array_two } @array_one;

foreach $C (@C) {
print "$C\n";
}

you can use the below:-

nawk 'FILENAME=="file2" {a[$1]=$1 }
FILENAME=="file1" { if ( ! a[$3] ) { print $0} }
' file2 file1