COMM
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2004
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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.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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www.fiveanddime.net
