CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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timothepoznanski
timothepoznanski

Reputation: 1112

Remove lines from file1 that exist in file2 in Powershell

I have a file1.txt which contains:

line1
line2
line3
line4

I want to remove from file1.txt all the lines which exist in another file2.txt:

line3
line2

The result should be :

line1
line4

I tried to use this command but it works only if I have one line in file2.txt :

Get-Content C:\file1.txt | Where-Object {$_ -notmatch $(get-content C:\file2.txt)}

Note : I don't want to compare 2 files to see if they are the same.

Any idea? I'm pretty new to powershell.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3150

Answers (2)

JosefZ
JosefZ

Reputation: 30123

Next code snippet shows two different ways to achieve the same result:

$filebefore="$env:TEMP\beforerestart.txt"    # change to match your circumstances
$file_after="$env:TEMP\after_restart.txt"    # ditto

### Compare-Object way
$array = Compare-Object $(Get-Content $filebefore) $(Get-Content $file_after)
$array | where {$_.SideIndicator -eq "<="} | 
              Format-Table -Property InputObject -AutoSize -HideTableHeaders

### -NotIn operator way
$(Get-Content $filebefore) | 
     Where-Object {$_ -notIn $(Get-Content $file_after)}

Upvotes: 6

Joe DeMate
Joe DeMate

Reputation: 41

Compare-Object is good for getting the difference between two files. Here is some sample code to accomplish what you have asked.

$file1 = Get-Content C:\temp\file1.txt
$file2 = Get-Content C:\temp\file2.txt
$Diff = Compare-Object $File1 $File2
$LeftSide = ($Diff | Where-Object $_.SideIndicator -eq '<=').InputObject
$LeftSide | Set-Content C:\temp\file3.txt

Upvotes: 4

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