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Linux tools to treat files as sets and perform set operations on them
I have two data sets, A and B. The format for each data set is one number per line. For instance,
12345 23456 67891 2345900 12345 Some of the data in A are not included in data set B. How to list all of these data in A, and how to list all of those data shared by A and B. How can I do that using Linux/UNIX commands?
Use the comm command.
If you lists are in files listA and listB:
comm listA listB By default, comm will return 3 columns. Items only in listA, items only in listB, and items common to both lists.
You can suppress individual columns, with a -1, -2, or -3 arg.
comm <(sort listA) <(sort listB) comm command deployed in all linux distro? This will give you the unique items that exist in A but not in B:
cat A|perl -ne '$z=$_;chomp($z);$y=`grep $z B`;if ($y== "") {print "\n$z";}'|sort -u This will give you the list of common items in both A and B:
cat A |xargs -i grep {} B|sort -u 