On Thu Mar 12 11:10:17 PDT 2015, [email protected] wrote: > erik quanstrom <[email protected]> writes: > > > so an interesting problem i run into from time to time is separately > > computing > > the files added to and deleted from a directory in a shell script. uniq > > doesn't > > work for this. certainly one can loop over two lists of files and do > > this easily, > > but that seems dull and tedious. > > Isn't this a canonical use case for comm(1)?
yes. i hadn't thought of that. that's trivial. - erik
