04-22-2009
grep not behaving the way I'd like
Thanks for the reply. That did make things easier however it's not behaving exactly as I'd like.
grep -f file1 file2
This finds every occurrence of the line in file1 in file2. So, I would expect the output to have the same number of lines as file1. However, the output has the same number of lines as file2. Why is it matching a blank line pattern in file1 to lines in file2?
To make his more clear, there are 46 lines in file1 and 51 lines in file2. I expect the output to have 46 lines, one line for every match from file1 found in file2. Instead, the output has 51 lines.
What is going wrong?
Thanks, Lanna
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NAME
combine - combine sets of lines from two files using boolean operations
SYNOPSIS
combine file1 and file2
combine file1 not file2
combine file1 or file2
combine file1 xor file2
_ file1 and file2 _
_ file1 not file2 _
_ file1 or file2 _
_ file1 xor file2 _
DESCRIPTION
combine combines the lines in two files. Depending on the boolean operation specified, the contents will be combined in different ways:
and Outputs lines that are in file1 if they are also present in file2.
not Outputs lines that are in file1 but not in file2.
or Outputs lines that are in file1 or file2.
xor Outputs lines that are in either file1 or file2, but not in both files.
"-" can be specified for either file to read stdin for that file.
The input files need not be sorted, and the lines are output in the order they occur in file1 (followed by the order they occur in file2
for the two "or" operations). Bear in mind that this means that the operations are not commutative; "a and b" will not necessarily be the
same as "b and a". To obtain commutative behavior sort and uniq the result.
Note that this program can be installed as "_" to allow for the syntactic sugar shown in the latter half of the synopsis (similar to the
test/[ command). It is not currently installed as "_" by default, but you can alias it to that if you like.
SEE ALSO
join(1)
AUTHOR
Copyright 2006 by Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Licensed under the GNU GPL.
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