Pattern list to remove from other file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I have fileA:

Joey.smith /my/path/to/here here
bill@smith /my/path/to/there there
John@smith /my/path/to/anywhere anywhere

I have fileB:

bill@smith

I want to end with fileC:

Joey.smith /my/path/to/here here
John@smith /my/path/to/anywhere anywhere

Thus remove B from A, the whole line.

I've tried:

grep -E -f FileB FileA >FileC

I've tried various metacharacters

^.*$

in FileB (patternlist) for the regex but I always end up with no lines or all the lines. What is the correct way?

2

Please use code tags as required by forum rules, also for data!
Did you search these forums for a similar problem (also required by forum rules)?
Take a look into man grep on how to exclude matches...

3

Please delete this then. I'll continue looking elsewhere.

Thanks

4

Not exact because it looks everywhere in the line

grep -F -vf FileB FileA >FileC