extracting unique values between 2 sets/files

Question

Working in linux/shell env, how can I accomplish the following:

text file 1 contains:

1
2
3
4
5

text file 2 contains:

Answer 1

If you are really set on doing this from the command line, this site (search for "no duplicates found") has an awk example that searches for duplicates. It may be a good starting point to look at that.

However, I'd encourage you to use Perl or Python for this. Basically, the flow of the program would be:

findUniqueValues(file1, file2){
    contents1 = array of values from file1
    contents2 = array of values from file2
    foreach(value2 in contents2){
        found=false
        foreach(value1 in contents1){
            if (value2 == value1) found=true
        }
        if(!found) print value2
    }
}

This isn't the most elegant way of doing this, since it has a O(n^2) time complexity, but it will do the job.