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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Basic question on comparing two text files Post 302733923 by Yoda on Wednesday 21st of November 2012 09:51:56 AM
Old 11-21-2012
Code:
awk 'FNR==NR{f[$0]; next;} { if(!($1 in f)) print;} ' myfile_2.txt myfile_1.txt
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