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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcomsv!resonex!zenon From: zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna) Subject: Re: How to find identical lines in multiple files? Message-ID: <1994Jan31.131709.7958@resonex.com> Organization: Resonex Inc., Fremont CA References: <2iihjj$52p@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 13:17:09 GMT Lines: 21 In article <2iihjj$52p@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) writes: >I just posted this to c.u.q and didn't get a reply. > >What is the best way to find identical lines in two or more files? >It is acceptable to sort the files first. > >Surely there is some option to diff, cmp, or grep to do this! >Isn't there? > >(I was unable to find any.) > >I have read the c.u.q. FAQ, et. al., and have had no luck with other routes. >Thanks. >-- >Protect our endangered bandwidth - reply by email. NO BIG SIGS! >VaX#n8 vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu - Don't blame me if the finger daemon is down There should be a comm(1) utility which - between other actions - can print lines common to two files: comm -12 file1 file2