comm(1) General Commands Manual comm(1) NAME comm - Compare two sorted files line by line. When FILE1 or FILE2 (not both) is -, read standard input. 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. SYNOPSIS comm [-1 ] [-2 ] [-3 ] [--output-delimiter] [-z|--zero-terminated] [--total] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] DESCRIPTION Compare two sorted files line by line. When FILE1 or FILE2 (not both) is -, read standard input. 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. OPTIONS -1 suppress column 1 (lines unique to FILE1) -2 suppress column 2 (lines unique to FILE2) -3 suppress column 3 (lines that appear in both files) --output-delimiter=STR separate columns with STR -z, --zero-terminated line delimiter is NUL, not newline --total output a summary -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version VERSION v0.0.26 comm 0.0.26 comm(1)