Re: comm --help

Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:59:45 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Jeschke, Volker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> comm --help
>
> Usage: comm [OPTION]... LEFT_FILE RIGHT_FILE
>
> Compare sorted files LEFT_FILE and RIGHT_FILE line by line.
>
>
>
>   -1              suppress lines unique to left file
>
>   -2              suppress lines unique to right file
>
>   -3              suppress lines unique to both files
>
>       --help      display this help and exit
>
>       --version   output version information and exit

[BTW, you shouldn't be using the textutils package anymore.
 It has been superseded by the Coreutils package (which also
 includes sh-utils and fileutils packages).

   http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
]

Thanks for the suggestion.
With the CVS sources, you get this:

  Usage: comm [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
  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

  Report bugs to <[email protected]>.