Usage: /usr/bin/comm [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2 Compare sorted files FILE1 and FILE2 line by line. When FILE1 or FILE2 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. -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) --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 --total output a summary -z, --zero-terminated line delimiter is NUL, not newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Comparisons honor the rules specified by 'LC_COLLATE'. Examples: /usr/bin/comm -12 file1 file2 Print only lines present in both file1 and file2. /usr/bin/comm -3 file1 file2 Print lines in file1 not in file2, and vice versa. Report bugs to: . GNU coreutils home page: General help using GNU software: Full documentation or available locally via: info '(coreutils) comm invocation'