ksh Loop through file one, remove lines from file two

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Good Afternoon,

I start with a file named biglist.txt.
I have another file smallerlist. txt

I want to remove the lines from smallerlist.txt from biglist.txt and leave those lines that do not reside in smallerlist.txt.

Thanks !!

2

You might be able to do this with just grep.

mute@thedoctor:~$ cat biglist.txt
foo
something
bar
else
mute@thedoctor:~$ cat smallerlist.txt
foo
bar
mute@thedoctor:~$ grep -F -v -f smallerlist.txt biglist.txt
something
else
3

Also try -x option if you don't want foo in the smallerlist.txt excluding food or foolish in biglist.txt