I had two big directories and I wanted to know the common files in each directory, it was like a reverse diff.
On Linux you can use the command comm, the basic details of the command below.
comm [-1] [-2] [-3 ] file1 file2 -1 Suppress the output column of lines unique to file1. -2 Suppress the output column of lines unique to file2. -3 Suppress the output column of lines duplicated in file1 and file2.
From looking at the command above you can easily see the differences in just one of the files/directories.
You can read the main man page for teh command but basically these are the main options to use. If you are new to Linux then I would recommend knowing this one in your toolkit along with diff.
If you’re looking for some other resources or tools for Linux, then check out this log viewer.
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