Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 23:16:01 -0400 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)] Message-ID: <BANLkTi=52xJMWt-=3-LgCEOR_b2e5J3jEg@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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... For future reference, comm(1) exists to handle problems like this, although (of course) TIMTOWTDI. b.
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