How to compare two text files [SOLVED]

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W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote:
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> Thanks for all your help

welcome.

> The way of NoSpaz with grep worked fine.

great.

> g's method gave me a unique list but it also had rows from file B. I
> want them excluded.

if you had rows from file b, then those are rows that where not in file a.


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