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comm

COMM(1) 							   User Commands							   COMM(1)

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

       --check-order
	      check that the input is correctly sorted, even if all input lines are pairable

       --nocheck-order
	      do not check that the input is correctly sorted

       --output-delimiter=STR
	      separate columns with STR

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report comm bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009 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.

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 invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 7.1						     July 2010								   COMM(1)