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grep that compares two configs a and b and finds all config lines present in file a and not in b. Of course a diff could do that, but sometimes you don't want to deal with the order or the differences of whitespaces. between the configs.
cat a
a
b
c
d
e
cat b
c
d
e
grep -Fxvf b a
a
b
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