Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 13:02:06 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> To: bf1783@gmail.com Cc: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)] Message-ID: <4DC526AE.3080603@lazlarlyricon.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=52xJMWt-=3-LgCEOR_b2e5J3jEg@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTi=52xJMWt-=3-LgCEOR_b2e5J3jEg@mail.gmail.com>
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2011-05-07 05:16, b. f. skrev: >> 2011-05-07 02:09, Rolf Nielsen skrev: >>> 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? > ... >> sort file1 file2 | uniq -d > > If the lines aren't repeated in only one file... They aren't (see my reply to Yuri Pankov). :) > > For future reference, comm(1) exists to handle problems like this, > although (of course) TIMTOWTDI. > > b. >
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