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.TH COMM "1" "March 2007" "GNU coreutils 6.9" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
comm \- compare two sorted files line by line
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B comm
[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE1 FILE2\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
Compare sorted files FILE1 and FILE2 line by line.
.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 lines unique to FILE1
.TP
\fB\-2\fR
suppress lines unique to FILE2
.TP
\fB\-3\fR
suppress lines that appear in both files
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to <bug\-coreutils@gnu.org>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.br
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.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for
.B comm
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B comm
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info comm
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.