[Techtalk] finding added lines in a file

Miriam English mim at miriam-english.org
Fri Aug 16 23:34:15 UTC 2013


R. Daneel Olivaw wrote:
> diff --suppress-common-lines A.txt B.txt | egrep '<|>' | cut -c 3-

This looks like it may be exactly what I want. Thanks Daneel.
I suspect I only need "grep '>'", but I have to look more closely at the 
output of diff to be sure. And using cut is a nice touch.

Cheers,

	- Miriam
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