GNU/Linux |
CentOS 4.8 |
i386 |
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comm(1) |
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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 |
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−2 |
suppress lines unique to FILE2 |
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−3 |
suppress lines that appear in both files |
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−−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
© 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.
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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