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 © 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.
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 comm
should give you access to the complete manual.