Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)]

[Rolf Nielsen]

2011-05-07 05:11, Yuri Pankov skrev:
> On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 04:23:40AM +0200, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
>> 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?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Rolf
>>
>> sort file1 file2 | uniq -d
>
> I very seriously doubt that this line does what you want...
>
> $ printf "a\na\na\nb\n">  file1; printf "c\nc\nb\n">  file2; sort file1 file2 | uniq -d
> a
> b
> c

Ok. I do understand the problem. Though the files I have do not have any 
duplicate lines, so that possibility didn't even cross my mind.

>
>
> Try this instead (probably bloated):
>
> sort<  file1 | uniq | tr -s '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -I % grep -Fx % file2 | sort | uniq
>
> There is comm(1), of course, but it expects files to be already sorted.

The files are sorted, so comm would work. Several people have already 
suggested comm, though I haven't tried it, as combining sort and uniq 
does what I want with my specific files.

>
>
> HTH,
> Yuri
>