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Old 10-10-2007
Urgent: How can i get the missing records from one file out of two
Hi,

I have two files say A and B, Both files have some common records few records which are unique to file A and unique to file B.

Can anyone please help me out to find the records which are present in only B

Please consider the files are of too large size.
ThanksSmilie
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Old 10-10-2007
I know there are other solutions but this one will work..

while read line
do
if [ `grep -c $line file1` = 0 ]
then
echo $line
fi
done < file2


cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam
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