Hello monks!
I have a problem and I wanted to see if this can be done.
Suppose you have a file (FILE1) with a bunch of names, like
nick
george
peter
olga
adam
wolfgang
antony
george
mike
steven

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and a smaller file (FILE2) with just 3 or 4 names from the big file, like 
george
olga
steven

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Is there a way, either to erase the names that appear in file2 from file1 of, if this can't be done,
to create a new file with just the remaining names from file1?
What I have tried is read files 1 and 2, create a hash from the names in file2 and then,
if the name I read as I iterate in file1 does not exist in the hash from file2, I print it in a new output file.
But my problem is that, by doing so, I get multiple entries from the names that appear only in file1...
Any hints?

In reply to Erase entries from files by Anonymous Monk

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