[ale] diff being boneheaded

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 08/07/2013 12:37 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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.

cat file1 file2 | sort > _tmp0.out
uniq -u < _tmp0.out

Example:

[mbt at aloe ~]$ cat > a.txt
abcd
efgh
ijkl
[mbt at aloe ~]$ cat > b.txt
efgh
ijkl
mnop
[mbt at aloe ~]$ cat {a,b}.txt|sort|uniq -u
abcd
mnop


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