Find common/identical lines within two files without DIFF

Here is really simple trick how to search for strings that are the same within two different files.

For presenting purposes I created two files with some text in it. Some text is the same, some not.

File 1:

> $ cat file1.txt 
test1
test2
test3
test4
test5

File2:

> $ cat file2.txt 
lala1
lala2
test3
test4
lala4
lala6

Here is how to find strings that are the same within both files:

> $ cat file1.txt file2.txt | sort | uniq -c | grep "2 " 
2 test3
2 test4

So, stringsĀ test3 and test4 occurring in both files.

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