Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 07:38:09 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comparing two lists Message-ID: <4DC4E8D1.5010007@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4DC48DB6.8030907@lazlarlyricon.com> References: <4DC48DB6.8030907@lazlarlyricon.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig3A0089035C0A251C5F8AFD3B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 07/05/2011 01:09, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > 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 nee= d > 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? comm(1) Which does exactly what you want -- showing lines that belong to one file or another, and lines that belong to both. The limitation is that the files need to be sorted before being compared. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enig3A0089035C0A251C5F8AFD3B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3E6NkACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzICACgkkR/29OMXQqmYIVjNxfBp6GZ T1cAni/8iINiby1NDI8VMJL1y0we9bbI =Skjl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig3A0089035C0A251C5F8AFD3B--
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