file comparison and output.

[tdave]

Trying to campare two text files and output to a third one. tried diff but it does not do what I want and after reading about it I found out should not. diff is for writeing patch files. not what i want to do. I am trying to save hours of work it would take to delete everything that is the same in these two files. I found this on the subject but have not been able to get it to work.ttps://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/171113/bash-scripting-problem-compare-two-lists-and-create-a-third

When I run the command..

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ttps://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/171113/bash-scripting-problem-compare-two-lists-and-create-a-third

I get ambiguous redirect.. when I look that up I find that more then one thing can cause that but nothing I have found so far has solved the problem. any ideals about what could cause it or fix it.

[Bloom]

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comm -3 txtfile1 txtfile2 >txtfile3

Should to the trick.

[CwF]

If you don't mind a GUI that works well, try MELD.

[tdave]

If you don't mind a GUI that works well, try MELD.

just my luck that i tried the wrong gui. Kompare either does not as advertised or I am not smart enough to get it to work even with it's help file.