11-07-2009
It might also be appropriate to ask why you are using C shell.
If you were weaned on it and just don't want to waste all that you have learned, that's one thing, but far too often people think "Oh, "C" shell. That must be C-like, so it's better".
Generally speaking, it's not. It has very poor redirection abilities and other faults (try searching Google for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful").
If you are going to be doing shell scripting as part of your work, you absolutely want to know Bash - you won't find too many places still using csh for anything (a few very ancient Sun BSD boxes).
And (as you saw here) if you ask for scripting help, most people aren't going to give you an answer using csh - almost always it will be Bash nowadays.
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combine
COMBINE(1) COMBINE(1)
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.
moreutils 2012-04-09 COMBINE(1)