Windows command to print only common lines in two or more files

Question

Something like comm but for Windows (No, installing Cygwin just for this is not a good idea.) It will be great if it will allow compare more than 2 files at once. Example for 2 files:

File1:

foo1
foo2
foo3
bar

File2:

bar
foo2

Output:

foo2
bar

(or in reverse order). Whitespace not have to be ignored (but it can), it's already normalized.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 26 '11 at 08:52

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CoreUtils for Windows

answered Aug 26 '11 at 08:52

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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try this: `comm -12 file1 file2` – Alexander Bird Dec 26 '12 at 21:27
Since the `comm` command is a part of the CoreUtils, then assuming you install CoreUtils correctly, it should work just as well on windows as any other system. – Alexander Bird Dec 09 '13 at 19:09
[CoreUtils for Windows via Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/packages/gnuwin32-coreutils.install), but note that PATH is not setup automatically. – starlocke Mar 01 '17 at 19:59

Windows command to print only common lines in two or more files

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