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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Comparing two txt files - pls help Post 302160862 by dennis.jacob on Wednesday 23rd of January 2008 01:28:27 AM
Old 01-23-2008
Remmeber that comm will work only for sorted files.
 

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