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COMM
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March 2005
comm (coreutils) 5.2.1
User Commands
  • NAME
      comm - compare two sorted files line by line
  • SYNOPSIS
      comm [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
  • DESCRIPTION


      Compare sorted files FILE1 and FILE2 line by line.

      With no options, produce three-column output.  Column one contains lines unique to FILE1, column two contains lines unique to FILE2, and column three contains lines common to both files.
      -1
      suppress lines unique to FILE1
      -2
      suppress lines unique to FILE2
      -3
      suppress lines that appear in both files
      --help
      display this help and exit
      --version
      output version information and exit
  • AUTHOR
      Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
  • REPORTING BUGS
      Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
  • COPYRIGHT
      Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
      This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  • SEE ALSO
      The full documentation for comm is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and comm programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils comm

      should give you access to the complete manual.
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