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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Two files, remove lines from second based on lines in first Post 302886409 by esoffron on Friday 31st of January 2014 09:07:36 AM
Old 01-31-2014
Awesome, except it isn't working on my "real" files. It works entirely correctly on the sample data I gave -- your answer is correct.

I wonder if one of the hacks I had tried before might have worked...

In the real world, with messy data, what might be keeping this from working? Some unprintable nonsense? Line ending CR/LF vs CR vs LF crud? Do you have tips for me where this might be brittle?

Thanks!
 

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