Sunday, October 7, 2012

Re: How to "destructive vimdiff" ;) two files ?

On 2012-10-07, mcc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are two files ("A" and "B") - both sorted alphabetically and of comparable
> contents.
>
> "A" is missing some entries of "B" and "B" is missing some entries of
> "A".
>
> I want to delete all entries both files have in common.
>
> Is this possible with vim in a easy way?

There may be a way to do this with Vim, but I would use the comm
command. For example,

comm -23 file1 file2

will produce a list of the lines in file1 that are not in file2.

Regards,
Gary

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