One Day One GNU/Linux Command
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comm - Compare 2 sorted files line by line

Summary: 

Compare two sorted files F1 and F2 line by line.

Examples:

$ comm F1 F2 -- Output contain 3 columns (Col1 - Uniq to F1, 
                Col2 - Uniq to F2 and Col3 - Common to F1 & F2).

$ comm -1 F1 F2 -- Suppress lines unique to F1

$ comm -2 F1 F2 -- Suppress lines unique to F2

$ comm -3 F1 F2 -- Suppress common lines to F1 & F2

$ comm -13 F1 F2 -- Show lines from F2, which is not in F1

$ comm -23 F1 F2 -- Show lines from F1, which is not in F2

Read: man comm

HTH :)
-- 
Bharathi S

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