[Gllug] Command-line tools for comparing lists

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 13:41 +0100, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> Another question, and no silly M$ess to crow over either, soz
> 
> I'm looking for command-line tools for comparing lists. For example, to
> find all the lines in a file that also appear in another file, or don't
> appear in another file. Are there some well-established ones, or do
> people just use a bit of Perl / Python / their own poison?
I was going to say use sort and diff,
but comm looks to be the utility you want.


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