comm compares two sorted files and prints three columns: lines only in file 1, only in file 2, and common to both. The flags -2 and -3 suppress the second and third columns, leaving just the lines unique to x1.txt. Both inputs must be sorted first, or results are wrong. This is the standard way to diff two sorted lists for missing entries.
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