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comm - compare two sorted files line by line
comm [OPTION]...
FILE1 FILE2
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
Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
Report
bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation,
Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There
is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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 invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.
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