I think you want to look at the "diff"

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/udiff.htm

which is different than "cmp"

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ucmp.htm

which is more for hunting for missing bits and bytes than for looking at
lines.



On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

>    Thought I had found such a tool once but I no longer remember its name.
> Here's the situation:
>
>    Two files: one with 474 lines, the other with 203 lines. I want to test
> whether all 203 lines of the second file are included in the first file. If
> not, I want a list of those second file lines not found in the first file.
>
>    A cluestick is needed.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
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