On 13 Oct 00, at 15:07, fergal daly wrote: > It's not perl and not that much fun but if you want to do this, the > easiest way I've seen is > > uniq -u WANT HAVE HAVE Does this work in modern versions of uniq? All the versions I've every used (including the one I have right here [just checked]) have been specific about requiring a *sorted* file. So the standard thing I do is: sort WANT HAVE HAVE | uniq -u Still not perl and not all that much fun... /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernie@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe