From: "Bartosz DziewoƄski" Date: 2011-10-06T01:57:20+09:00 Subject: Re: Best way to compare lines in 2 files And if the files are quite small and you couldn't care less about speed as long as it takes less than 5 seconds you could just do: lines1 = File.readlines 'file1' lines2 = File.readlines 'file2' common = lines1 & lines2 second_only = lines2 - lines1 -- Matma Rex