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How to match 2 large file and print the difference in shell script

I have 2 files. File1 has 400k numerical records. e.g: 1 2 3 4 5 6 .. and so on File 2 also has 420k numerical records. e.g: 1 2 3 4 6 .. and so on Both these file are in unsorted manner. I want ...
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Unique lines based on the first field

How can you find unique lines or duplicate lines in a file based on the content of the first field, or the first n characters ? The uniq command on OS X lacks the -w switch that is available under ...