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awk how to remove lines in one file that are found in another file
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awk how to remove lines in one file that are found in another file
Solution
# Example 1
awk 'NR==FNR{a[$0];next} !($0 in a)' file_2 file_1
# Where:
# - this returns all lines in file_1 that are not found in file_2
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