Date: 7 May 2011 02:43:42 -0000 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comparing two lists Message-ID: <20110507024342.98559.qmail@joyce.lan> In-Reply-To: <4DC49CC3.8000103@lazlarlyricon.com>
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>Some 10,000 to 20,000 lines each. I do need only the common lines. Order >is not essential, but would make life easier. I've tried a little with >uniq, as suggested by Polyptron, but I guess 3am is not quite the right >time to do these things. Anyway, thanks. sort -u file1 > sorted-file1 sort -u file2 > sorted-file2 comm -12 sorted-file1 sorted-file2 > result R's, John
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