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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition
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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

by Shantanu Tushar, Sarath Lakshman
May 2013
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
7h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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The intersection and set difference (A-B) on text files

Intersection and set difference operations are commonly used in mathematical classes on set theory. However, similar operations on strings are also very helpful in some scenarios.

Getting ready

The comm command is a utility to perform a comparison between the two files. It has many good options to arrange the output in such a way that we can perform intersection, difference, and set difference operations.

  • Intersection: The intersection operation will print the lines that the specified files have in common with one another
  • Difference: The difference operation will print the lines that the specified files contain and that are not the same in all of those files
  • Set difference: The set difference ...
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