Need help with sorting through "database"

jorisb · 11-03-2005, 06:21 PM

I have a massive file containing all exe files on windows machines.
I have a second file that contains all exe files I'm not interested in.

I would like a third file to be created that shows all exe's from the first file minus the ones in the second.

I'm thinking it's best to use a combination of grep and look command, but have no real idea how to even begin this.

Anyone?

jorisb · 11-03-2005, 07:04 PM

grep -iv example.exe data.list
This works to show the entire list except for example.exe

Now if only I could go through a list one by one and replace example.exe with each line in this file.

Someone here has to know a command to do this and pipe into this grep command