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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

The reversed diff

We use diff to find out the different lines in 2 files, but sometimes we also need to find out the same lines in 2 files. So we need the "reversed diff"

And this command can be used as the reversed diff:

cat file1 file2 | sort | uniq -d



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