Re: awk or sed?

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, A. M. Varon wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> [Sorry if this is off-topic.]
> 
> I have two files say, file1 and file2
> 
> file1 contains:            file2 contains:
> alpha                      alpha                    
> bravo
> charlie
> 
> What I want to do is compare the two files, and delete the contents of
> file1 according to file2. So, from the above, I'll have to delete the word
> alpha from file1. Can it be possible using sed? or awk?
> 
> thanks,

Hehe, try grep!

grep -vFf file2 file1

should do it.




George Bonser 
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