Re: duplicate entries - compare files

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

You have to sort the files before using commm. Another simple solution
is to use the -d option of uniq (after sorting, of course):

sort file1 file2 | uniq -d

Hubble.

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