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defect in comm help message


From: Dan Bloch
Subject: defect in comm help message
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:59:00 -0400

The "comm -help" ouput reads

                  -1              suppress lines unique to left file
                  -2              suppress lines unique to right file
                  -3              suppress lines unique to both files

The third line of this should say "suppress lines in both files" or
something like that.  Those line aren't unique.  As it stands, the usage
message is quite confusing (and comm usage is confusing enough!)

The Unix man page says, "Suppress the output column of lines duplicated  in
file1 and file2."

Cheers,
Dan



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