use strict; use warnings; use File::Slurp qw/read_file/; my ( %file1Hash, %file2Hash, %mergedHash ); my @files = sort { -M $a <=> -M $b } <"*.txt">; do { chomp; $file1Hash{$_}++ } for read_file $files[0]; $mergedHash{$_}++ for keys %file1Hash; do { chomp; $file2Hash{$_}++ } for read_file $files[1]; $mergedHash{$_}++ for keys %file2Hash; print "$_\n" for grep $mergedHash{$_} == 1, keys %mergedHash;