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# 8  
Old 04-30-2008
hope this one helps for you

awk '{ chk_str="grep ^"$0"$ ./file2_name" ; system(chk_str) }' file1_name
# 9  
Old 04-30-2008
Hi.

The command comm finds simple differences and the intersection between the contents of two sorted files. Here is the latter:
Code:
% comm -12 file1 file2

Producing:
Code:
entry2

See the man page for details ... cheers, drl
# 10  
Old 05-03-2008
Bug
Quote:
Originally Posted by makrami
its give me nothing
It is working fine for me.
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