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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

       Note, comparisons honor the rules specified by `LC_COLLATE'.

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 © 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 7.4		September 2010			       COMM(1)
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