The comm utility reads file1 and file2, which should be sorted lexically, and produces three text columns as output: lines only in file1; lines only in file2; and lines in both files. It's sort of twist on diff. It's nice because there's no formatting to get in the way. $ cat > 1.txt << __END__ 1 2 3 __END__ $ cat > 2.txt << __END__ heredoc> 2 heredoc> 3 heredoc> 4 heredoc> __END__ $ comm 1.txt 2.txt 1 2 3 4 Thanks to Krishna Srinivasan for teaching me about a new old-school tool ;)
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