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Old 01-21-2008
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Originally Posted by dennis.jacob View Post
Try this:
Code:
comm -13 file1 file2
Code:
diff file1 file2 | awk '/^>/{print $2 }'

Could you please tell me why -13 is being used in comm command ?
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