#!/bin/bash function usage_exit { echo 'Usage: dedupe FILE1 FILE2' >&2 echo >&2 echo 'Prints all lines from FILE2 that do not appear in FILE1, in the order of FILE2.' >&2 echo "WARNING: FILE1 has to be read into memory fully, and memory use scales with about a factor 40 of FILE1's size. If your files are sorted, use comm instead." >&2 exit $1 } if [[ "$1" == '-h' || "$1" == '--help' ]]; then usage_exit 0; fi if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then usage_exit 1; fi # Perl seems to be ~30 % faster than AWK for this, but grep is ~2-3 times faster than Perl. # AWK uses the least memory, Perl about 1.5 times as much, grep twice as much (as AWK). #awk 'NR==FNR { s[$0]=1; next; } !($0 in s)' "$1" "$2" #perl -ne 'if (@ARGV == 1) { $seen{$_}=1; } else { print $_ if !(exists $seen{$_}); }' "$1" "$2" grep -F -x -v -f "$1" "$2"