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Commands using comm

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comm -13 <(od -vw1 -tu1 dummy.txt|cut -c9-|sort -u) <(seq 0 127|sort)|perl -pe '$_=chr($_)'|od -c
2012-01-09 01:32:20
User: bazzargh
Functions: comm cut od perl seq sort
Tags: bash
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Delimiter Hunting

Search in decimal rather than hex. od dumps the character list, cut to remove offsets, sort -u gives the used characters. seq gives the comparison list, but we need this sorted alphabetically for comm, which does the filtering. I drop to perl to convert back to characters (is there a better way?) and then use od to dump them in a print-safe format.

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comm -13 <(sort file1) <(sort file2) > file-new
2011-10-01 18:07:54
User: daa
Functions: comm sort
Tags: sort grep textfile comm
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Save lines unique to file2

If both file1 and file2 are already sorted:

comm -13 file1 file2 > file-new

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awk -F" " '{ if ( NF == 1 ) { print $0 } }' KINDLE_NOTES_FILE.txt | sed -e '/^=/d' | sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' -e 's/,//g' | sort | comm -12 List_of_language_words.txt - | uniq
2011-08-15 14:35:33
User: parmegv
Functions: awk comm sed sort
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Single words from Amazon Kindle 3 notes

You can use any dictionary you want, in any language.

This command will output all single-word annotations that you have underlined in your Kindle device (provided the file) given a list of language-specific words.

If you want to learn vocabulary, this command is ideal.

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comm -12 FILE1.sorted FILE2.sorted > common
2011-07-09 08:53:17
User: evandrix
Functions: comm
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Find common lines between two files
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comm --nocheck-order -31
2011-06-02 19:17:46
User: dullgiulio
Functions: comm
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Describe differences between files
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Array1=( "one" "two" "three" "four" "five" );Array2=( "four" "five" "six" "seven" );savedIFS="${IFS}";IFS=$'\n';Array3=($(comm -12 <(echo "${Array1[*]}" |sort -u) <(echo "${Array2[*]}" | sort -u)));IFS=$savedIFS
2010-08-23 19:25:22
User: elofland
Functions: comm echo sort
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intersection of two arrays

the comm utility (opposite of diff) show commonalities in files (in this case strings)

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comm file1 file2 | sed -e 's/^[^\t].*/\x1b[33m&\x1b[0m/' -e 's/^\t[^\t].*/\x1b[36m&\x1b[0m/' -e 's/^\t\t[^\t].*/\x1b[32m&\x1b[0m/'
2010-05-07 00:14:31
User: recursiverse
Functions: comm sed
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colorize comm output

It just colorizes the line based on if it has 0, 1 or 2 tabs at the beginning of the line. Won't work so well if lines already begin with tabs (too bad comm doesn't have an option to substitute \t for something else).

Don't forget comm needs input files to be sorted. You can use a shortcut like this with bash: comm

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comm -1 -2 <(sort file1) <(sort file2)
2009-02-19 21:10:19
User: jcgam69
Functions: comm sort
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show lines that appear in both file1 and file2
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