[Corpora-List] Comparing files

[Lluís Padró]

>I'm doing a project that involves comparing two very large word lists (~40.000 and 70.000 words). What I need to find out, is which words are on one list and not on the other (and/or vice versa).
>Can anyone give me a hint as to how to do this? (I was thinking; maybe a perl script?)
>
>

  sort list1 > list1.sorted
  sort list2 > list2.sorted
  join -v1 list1.sorted list2.sorted

  (if you use -v2 instead, you'll get words in list2 and not in list1)

       best
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