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Fastest way to determine if two sorted lists contain unique elements

I have two sorted files A and B where the size of A is much greater than B, e.g. A is 100GB while B is 50MB. I want to quickly determine if there are any lines in B that are contained in A, stopping ...
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Is there a search utility which can binary split search a large sorted (sequential) text file?

Yes, I know it sounds odd. Sequential and Binary-splits don't mix.. That is unless the sequence is the byte offset within the file itself... I've scrambled together a binary split search in bash ...