[geeks] Programming question.

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, April 1, 2002 at 19:58:16 (-0600), Bill Bradford wrote: ]
> Subject: [geeks] Programming question.
>
> Okay, so far, I havent been able to figure out a way to do this, so any
> suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Compare two lists.  List A, and List B.
> I want to be able to then extract a list of 
> elements of List B that are *not* in List A.

first sort the lists (if they're not already sorted), then:

	comm -2 list-a.sorted list-b.sorted

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