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Old 10-18-2013
Linux Compare two files and get only missing names
I need to compare two files (oldfile1 & newfile). Need to ignore the values which are present in both files. At the same time, i need to get only records in new file.

Tried using Join -v1 -v2 oldfile1 newfile (suspect it has not worked as expected).

could anyone of you please help me here.
# 2  
Old 10-18-2013
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Originally Posted by Selva_2507
I need to compare two files (oldfile1 & newfile). Need to ignore the values which are present in both files. At the same time, i need to get only records in new file.

Tried using Join -v1 -v2 oldfile1 newfile (suspect it has not worked as expected).

could anyone of you please help me here.

Show us your input and expected o/p. We will help you
# 3  
Old 10-18-2013
Compare two files and get only missing names
Oldfile

Code:
LONDON
HUNGARY
Budapest
california

Newfile

Code:
HUNGARY
california
North carolina
India
LONDON
Budapest
Switzerland


Output should be:

Code:
North carolina
India
Switzerland

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-19-2013 at 06:08 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 4  
Old 10-18-2013
Please use codetag

try

Code:
$ grep -v -f oldfile  newfile

OR

Code:
$ awk 'FNR==NR{A[$0]++;next}!($0 in A)' oldfile newfile

Resulting

Code:
North carolina
India
Switzerland

# 5  
Old 10-19-2013
Compare two files and
yeah.. thank you so much, itworked...
# 6  
Old 10-19-2013
You could also use comm command if your files were sorted or you could do something like this to sort them first. Note your output would also be sorted.
Code:
comm -23 <(sort newfile) <(sort oldfile)

Code:
India
North carolina
Switzerland

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