Question

Is there a mac file comparison tool that can detect duplicates within a file? This is very close to what I’m looking for except it is for Windows: http://www.rlvision.com/dupli/about.asp. Also, I need to compare duplicate content across two files. If nothing else, I can just append file2 content to the bottom of file1.

Answer 1

I don’t know of a GUI app to do it, but it’s fairly easy at the terminal:

cat file1.txt file2.txt | sort | uniq -d

The -d will make it show only duplicate lines. If you just want the output without duplicates, just leave off the -d.