Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 02:49:58 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Comparing two lists Message-ID: <4DC49736.1090909@lazlarlyricon.com> In-Reply-To: <20110507023325.6be436ec.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4DC48DB6.8030907@lazlarlyricon.com> <20110507023325.6be436ec.freebsd@edvax.de>
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2011-05-07 02:33, Polytropon skrev: > 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. > > Ah. I didn't know about uniq. That sure helped. :) Thanks.
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