I have a database filled with about 200,000+ records. Each one has information - domain name, username, host.
This is *not* a dynamic database - I have to manually go through each one of the hosts, extract a master domain list, and parse it from there...
The initial challenge was to get all of the information into a database - that has been handled(albeit crudely).

Now I'm faced with the task of keeping it updated every few days/weeks...
So lets say I have 'host01-original.txt', and I can get 'host01-updated.txt' at any given time. Any suggestions as to the best way of finding new additions to the file only?

The brute force method of a huge 'grep' loop seems a bit distasteful at present.

The file is currently in the format:
domainname.com:username

Thanks!

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