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CentOS 5.1 |
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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
© 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. 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 comm
should give you access to the complete manual.
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