> > Well, what about using "comm" as proposed by Michael in the other > > mail? It seems to be part of coreutils and should be everywhere. > > > > I guess that many people, including me, are not fluent in awk. > > So, I am slightly in favor of the "comm" approach ;-) > > > > comm is definitely simpler and for some reason I forgot about the > leading timestamps (again!) dismissing it thinking that the inputs > weren't sorted. But luckily they are and if Naresh or anyone can > confirm that comm is well supported in the BusyBox testing environment, > then using that is fine w/me. "comm" works in our environment. - Naresh