# List Processing

Tags: lists


List storage	How saved lists are stored
AND-LISTS	AND two or more save-lists together to produce a new default list containing only values common in all lists (Intersection), e.g. AND-LISTS list1 list2 ... listX
COPY-LIST	Copy a saved list to another list or to another file
DELETE-LIST	Deletes a saved list
DIFF-LIST	Creates a list which is the difference between two stored lists
EDIT-LIST	Edit an existing list. The default editor is ED, however an alternate editor can be specifed using the ED= option, e.g. edit-list planets ed=jed edit-list employees ed=notepad edit-list books ed=nano
FORM-LIST	Creates a list from a record in a file
GET-LIST	Retrieves a stored list and makes it the active list
LIST-LISTS	Displays a list of all select lists available
OR-LISTS	OR two or more save-lists together to produce a new default list containing all values both common and unique from each list (Union), e.g. OR-LISTS list1 list2 ... listX
QSELECT	Generates a select list from the fields of specified items and makes it the active list
SAVE-LIST	Saves the currently active select list to a named list record
SEARCH	Creates a list of all records in a file which contain one or more text sequences
SORT-LIST	Sorts a saved select list
XOR-LISTS	XOR (eXclusive OR) two or more save-lists together to produce a new default list containing only unique values from each list. In other words, entries selected from each list do not appear in any of the other lists.
XSELECT	Generates a select list of keys in a file which do not match given selection criteria

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