DIFFERENCE-UID-LISTS(1)

💖 DIFFERENCE-UID-LISTS 💖

okay so bestie, this one lives in the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual and it's literally the glow-up your number lists have been waiting for 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

difference-uid-lists — compute symmetric difference of two numerical lists 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

difference-uid-lists filename1 filename2

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like. difference-uid-lists computes the symmetric difference of the number lists you hand it (and yes babe, those lists are expected to contain one number per line — that's the vibe, that's the format, no notes 💁‍♀️).

and then?? it sorts the result numerically. slay. ✨

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• combine-uid-lists(1)
• ecollect(1)
• efetch(1)
• efilter(1)
• esearch(1)
• exclude-uid-lists(1)
• intersect-uid-lists(1)
• xfetch(1)
• xfilter(1)
• xlink(1)
• xsearch(1)

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and that's the whole page, no cap 🌈 this lil icon dropped from NCBI on 2025-05-26 — go forth and diff those lists, main character 💜👑