Re: How to compare two text files

2010-05-07 Thread W.H. Kalpa Pathum
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 18:27:12 +0530, >  "W.H. Kalpa Pathum" wrote: >> hi, >> >> I've got two text files containing email addresses one at a row. The >> number of rows in one file is different from the number of the other >> file. email a

Re: How to compare two text files

2010-05-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 18:27:12 +0530, "W.H. Kalpa Pathum" wrote: > hi, > > I've got two text files containing email addresses one at a row. The > number of rows in one file is different from the number of the other > file. email addresses in one file is already there in the other file > (ther

Re: How to compare two text files [SOLVED]

2010-05-06 Thread W.H. Kalpa Pathum
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, g wrote: > W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: > > >> Thanks for all your help > > welcome. > >> The way of NoSpaz with grep worked fine. > > great. > >> g's method gave me a unique list but it also had rows from file B. I >> want them excluded. > > if you had rows from file

Re: How to compare two text files [SOLVED]

2010-05-06 Thread g
W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: > Thanks for all your help welcome. > The way of NoSpaz with grep worked fine. great. > g's method gave me a unique list but it also had rows from file B. I > want them excluded. if you had rows from file b, then those are rows that where not in file a. -- peace

Re: How to compare two text files [SOLVED]

2010-05-06 Thread W.H. Kalpa Pathum
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010, W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: > >> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:53 PM, g wrote: >> >> Thanks for all your help >> >> The way of NoSpaz with grep worked fine. >> g's method gave me a unique list but it also had rows from file

Re: How to compare two text files [SOLVED]

2010-05-06 Thread Karl-Olov Serrander
On Thu, 6 May 2010, W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:53 PM, g wrote: > > Thanks for all your help > > The way of NoSpaz with grep worked fine. > g's method gave me a unique list but it also had rows from file B. I > want them excluded. > > Anyway thanks for all. man comm rega

Re: How to compare two text files [SOLVED]

2010-05-06 Thread W.H. Kalpa Pathum
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:53 PM, g wrote: > W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: > > >> Any idea on how to accomplish this? > > > cat file.a > file.c > cat file.b >> file.c > sort file.c > file.d > uniq -u file.d > file.e > > > -- > > peace out. > > tc,hago. > > g > . > > > in a free world without fences

Re: How to compare two text files

2010-05-06 Thread g
W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: > Any idea on how to accomplish this? cat file.a > file.c cat file.b >> file.c sort file.c > file.d uniq -u file.d > file.e -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a frien

Re: How to compare two text files

2010-05-06 Thread NoSpaze
Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 18:27 +0530 schrieb W.H. Kalpa Pathum: > I've got two text files containing email addresses one at a row. The > number of rows in one file is different from the number of the other > file. email addresses in one file is already there in the other file > (there are som

Re: How to compare two text files

2010-05-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:57 AM, W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: > hi, > > I've got two text files containing email addresses one at a row. The > number of rows in one file is different from the number of the other > file. email addresses in one file is already there in the other file > (there are some mo

Re: How to compare two text files

2010-05-06 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 18:27 +0530, W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: > hi, > > I've got two text files containing email addresses one at a row. The > number of rows in one file is different from the number of the other > file. email addresses in one file is already there in the other file > (there are some

Re: How to compare two text files

2010-05-06 Thread W.H. Kalpa Pathum
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 18:27 +0530, W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: >> hi, >> >> I've got two text files containing email addresses one at a row. The >> number of rows in one file is different from the number of the other >> file. email addresses in on

Re: How to compare two text files

2010-05-06 Thread Terry Polzin
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 18:27 +0530, W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: > hi, > > I've got two text files containing email addresses one at a row. The > number of rows in one file is different from the number of the other > file. email addresses in one file is already there in the other file > (there are some