I need some unix tool magic again.  Here's what I have and my goal...

I have 2 files.

File 1 contains a list of books by ISBN and some related data of the form:
ISBN, Price, Publisher, etc.

File 2 contains a list of books by ISBN and different related data of the form:
ISBN, Quantity on hand, etc.

File 1 and File 2 should contain the same exact ISBNs but they
apparently don't -- their line number counts differ.

We want to find out which one contains ISBNs the other doesn't.  For
example, if file 1 is larger by 20 lines, what ISBNs are in file 1
that aren't in file 2?

I suspect it's a matter of: cut, sort, uniq or diff but I'm not that
familiar with these tools.  Any tips?

Thanks,
Rob
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