grep lines in a file from another file

iga3725 · August 4, 2010, 4:56am

Hi

This is the scenario:

fileA:

st1
st2
st3
st6
.
.

fileB

st1
st6

I want fields in fileB to grep -v in fileA...Desired output:

fileC

st2
st3
.
.

Thanks
regards
Israel.

guruprasadpr · August 4, 2010, 5:10am

Hi

 grep -vf fileB fileA > fileC

Guru.

iga3725 · August 4, 2010, 6:21am

Working now!

Thanks

ningy · August 4, 2010, 8:20am

I have a quick question here..

Is it possible to find out which values got ommitted ..just in case its a big file...