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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-07 16:11:47 +0000
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+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.48.5.
+.TH COMM "1" "April 2022" "GNU coreutils 9.1" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+comm \- compare two sorted files line by line
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B comm
+[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,FILE1 FILE2\/\fR
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.\" Add any additional description here
+.PP
+Compare sorted files FILE1 and FILE2 line by line.
+.PP
+When FILE1 or FILE2 (not both) is \-, read standard input.
+.PP
+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.
+.TP
+\fB\-1\fR
+suppress column 1 (lines unique to FILE1)
+.TP
+\fB\-2\fR
+suppress column 2 (lines unique to FILE2)
+.TP
+\fB\-3\fR
+suppress column 3 (lines that appear in both files)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-check\-order\fR
+check that the input is correctly sorted, even
+if all input lines are pairable
+.TP
+\fB\-\-nocheck\-order\fR
+do not check that the input is correctly sorted
+.TP
+\fB\-\-output\-delimiter\fR=\fI\,STR\/\fR
+separate columns with STR
+.TP
+\fB\-\-total\fR
+output a summary
+.TP
+\fB\-z\fR, \fB\-\-zero\-terminated\fR
+line delimiter is NUL, not newline
+.TP
+\fB\-\-help\fR
+display this help and exit
+.TP
+\fB\-\-version\fR
+output version information and exit
+.PP
+Note, comparisons honor the rules specified by 'LC_COLLATE'.
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.TP
+comm \-12 file1 file2
+Print only lines present in both file1 and file2.
+.TP
+comm \-3 file1 file2
+Print lines in file1 not in file2, and vice versa.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
+.br
+Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
+.br
+This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+\fBjoin\fP(1), \fBuniq\fP(1)
+.PP
+.br
+Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/comm>
+.br
+or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) comm invocation\(aq