[Gllug] Comm

[tet at accucard.com]

>I don't believe you example explains my problem, I needed the "comm -23" 
>command to exclude the lines common to both files, and those lines only in 
>file 2

So you want lines that are in file 1, but not file 2? comm is the wrong
tool because it shows common lines, not differences.

	diff file1 file2 | egrep '^<' | cut -c3-

Won't work with unsorted input files, but you've already said that yours
are sorted.

Tet

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