User Commands                                             COM(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

     --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 .

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright O 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software.  You may redistribute  copies  of  it
     under   the   terms   of  the  GNU  General  Public  License
     .  There  is  NO  WAR-
     RANTY, 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.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:




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       ATRIBUTE TYPE      ATRIBUTE VALUE  
    
     Availability         SUNWgnu-coreutils 
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted       
    

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    coreutils    is     available     on
     http:/opensolaris.org.












































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