At 04:01 PM 8.13.2010 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: >On Friday 13 August 2010 15:47:38 Jack L. Stone wrote: > >> The only thing it didn't do for me was the next step. My final objective >> was to really determine the words in the "word.file" that were not in the >> "main.file." I figured finding matches would be easy and then could then >> run a sort|uniq comparison to determine the "new words" not yet in the >> main.file. >> >> Since I will have a need to run this check frequently, any suggestions for >> a better approach are welcome. > >sort -u and comm(1)? > >comm will compare two sorted files and produce up to three lists: of words >only in file one, of words only in file 2 and of words common to both files. >You can suppress any or all of the output lists. > >Jonathan >_______________________________________________
Jonathan: Thanks, I had forgotten about comm(1). Mehinks I am close to the solution to the whole issue now. Jack (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
