Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 02:33:25 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Comparing two lists Message-ID: <20110507023325.6be436ec.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4DC48DB6.8030907@lazlarlyricon.com> References: <4DC48DB6.8030907@lazlarlyricon.com>
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On Sat, 07 May 2011 02:09:26 +0200, Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in > common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do > exist in both files are not necessarily in the same location. Now I need > to compare the files and output a list of lines that exist in both > files. Is there a simple way to do this? diff? awk? sed? cmp? Or a > combination of two or more of them? I would suggest using a combination of sort, uniq and diff. Those are base system tools. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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