Re: duplicate entries - compare files

From: Ed Morton <morton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:34:20 -0500

tester wrote:

Hi Gurus,
I need to compare two files which shows me ONLY duplicate entries
(entry common to both files)
i tried "comm" command but it doesn't show me correctly or may be i am
not using it correctly.
Please Help
Regards

comm only works on files that are sorted. Sort the files first.

Ed.
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