From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat May  7 11:02:20 2011
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D9B1065672
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>;
	Sat,  7 May 2011 11:02:20 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from listreader@lazlarlyricon.com)
Received: from mailgw6.surf-town.net (mail12.surf-town.net [212.97.132.52])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1D78FC16
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>;
	Sat,  7 May 2011 11:02:19 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by mailgw6.surf-town.net (Postfix, from userid 65534)
	id 216D95F903; Sat,  7 May 2011 13:02:19 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by mailgw6.surf-town.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04AFE5F97E;
	Sat,  7 May 2011 13:02:19 +0200 (CEST)
X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mailgw6.surf-town.net
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: -1.44
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.44 tagged_above=-999 required=7
	tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44]
Received: from mailgw6.surf-town.net ([127.0.0.1])
	by localhost (mailgw6.surf-town.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new,
	port 10024)
	with LMTP id LDLqq96sUyGQ; Sat,  7 May 2011 13:02:09 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from lazlar.kicks-ass.net
	(c-0987e355.09-42-6e6b7010.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [85.227.135.9])
	by mailgw6.surf-town.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 477255F903;
	Sat,  7 May 2011 13:02:07 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <4DC526AE.3080603@lazlarlyricon.com>
Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 13:02:06 +0200
From: Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; sv-SE;
	rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110502 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: bf1783@gmail.com
References: <BANLkTi=52xJMWt-=3-LgCEOR_b2e5J3jEg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=52xJMWt-=3-LgCEOR_b2e5J3jEg@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)]
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 11:02:21 -0000

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.
>