<div dir="ltr">Maybe you want the 'comm' command instead of diff?<br><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>❧ Brian Mathis</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I've got 2 text files > 6M lines each. Each file is sorted in dictionary order. diff is flagging identical lines between them as different but not all lines.<br><br></div>I look at the output and can see no reason why they are flagged except for maybe one line is too far away from the same line in the other file.<br>
<br></div>There is some crap from a mac backup list that was in a different codepage but I think I've fixed that.<br><br></div>Ideas on how to tell diff to ignore the line count between lines? Basically all I want is a fast "these lines are not in the other file" for both files.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
<div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div>
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