Shell command to find lines common in two files

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The command you are seeking is comm. eg:-

comm -12 1.sorted.txt 2.sorted.txt

Here:

-1 : suppress column 1 (lines unique to 1.sorted.txt)

-2 : suppress column 2 (lines unique to 2.sorted.txt)

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