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From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <ateve@sohara.org>
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Subject: Re: shell script problem
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:57:02 +0000
Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hmmm.... I'd just like to draw your attention to the comm(1) program,
> which lets you find lines common to two files, or only in one or other
> of a pair of inputs, very easily.  The only slight gotcha is that the
> input files have to be sorted.

	For which purpose the sort program is most useful.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>