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Waldir Pimenta d95b01fcd1 make the last examples more useful (#858)
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# comm
> Select or reject lines common to two files. Both files must be sorted.
- Produce three tab-separated columns: lines only in first file, lines only in second file and common lines:
`comm {{file1}} {{file2}}`
- Print only lines common to both files:
`comm -12 {{file1}} {{file2}}`
- Print only lines common to both files, reading one file from stdin:
`cat {{file1}} | comm -12 - {{file2}}`
- Get lines only found in first file, saving the result to a third file:
`comm -23 {{file1}} {{file2}} > file1-only.txt`
- Print lines only found in second file, when the files aren't sorted:
`comm -13 <(sort {{file1}}) <(sort {{file2}})`