Originální popis anglicky:
comm - select or reject lines common to two files
Návod, kniha: POSIX Programmer's Manual
comm [-123] file1 file2
The
comm utility shall read
file1 and
file2, which should
be ordered in the current collating sequence, and produce three text columns
as output: lines only in
file1, lines only in
file2, and lines
in both files.
If the lines in both files are not ordered according to the collating sequence
of the current locale, the results are unspecified.
The
comm utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
The following options shall be supported:
- -1
- Suppress the output column of lines unique to
file1.
- -2
- Suppress the output column of lines unique to
file2.
- -3
- Suppress the output column of lines duplicated in
file1 and file2.
The following operands shall be supported:
- file1
- A pathname of the first file to be compared. If
file1 is '-' , the standard input shall be used.
- file2
- A pathname of the second file to be compared. If
file2 is '-' , the standard input shall be used.
If both
file1 and
file2 refer to standard input or to the same
FIFO special, block special, or character special file, the results are
undefined.
The standard input shall be used only if one of the
file1 or
file2
operands refers to standard input. See the INPUT FILES section.
The input files shall be text files.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
comm:
- LANG
- Provide a default value for the internationalization
variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization
Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to
determine the values of locale categories.)
- LC_ALL
- If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
all the other internationalization variables.
- LC_COLLATE
-
Determine the locale for the collating sequence comm expects to have
been used when the input files were sorted.
- LC_CTYPE
- Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to
multi-byte characters in arguments and input files).
- LC_MESSAGES
- Determine the locale that should be used to affect the
format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
- NLSPATH
- Determine the location of message catalogs for the
processing of LC_MESSAGES .
Default.
The
comm utility shall produce output depending on the options selected.
If the
-1,
-2, and
-3 options are all selected,
comm shall write nothing to standard output.
If the
-1 option is not selected, lines contained only in
file1
shall be written using the format:
If the
-2 option is not selected, lines contained only in
file2
are written using the format:
"%s%s\n", <lead>, <line in file2>
where the string <
lead> is as follows:
- <tab>
- The -1 option is not selected.
- null string
- The -1 option is selected.
If the
-3 option is not selected, lines contained in both files shall be
written using the format:
"%s%s\n", <lead>, <line in both>
where the string <
lead> is as follows:
- <tab><tab>
- Neither the -1 nor the -2 option is
selected.
- <tab>
- Exactly one of the -1 and -2 options is
selected.
- null string
- Both the -1 and -2 options are selected.
If the input files were ordered according to the collating sequence of the
current locale, the lines written shall be in the collating sequence of the
original lines.
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
None.
None.
The following exit values shall be returned:
- 0
- All input files were successfully output as specified.
- >0
- An error occurred.
Default.
The following sections are informative.
If the input files are not properly presorted, the output of
comm might
not be useful.
If a file named
xcu contains a sorted list of the utilities in this
volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, a file named
xpg3
contains a sorted list of the utilities specified in the X/Open Portability
Guide, Issue 3, and a file named
svid89 contains a sorted list of the
utilities in the System V Interface Definition Third Edition:
comm -23 xcu xpg3 | comm -23 - svid89
would print a list of utilities in this volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 not specified by either of the other
documents:
comm -12 xcu xpg3 | comm -12 - svid89
would print a list of utilities specified by all three documents, and:
comm -12 xpg3 svid89 | comm -23 - xcu
would print a list of utilities specified by both XPG3 and the SVID, but not
specified in this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.
None.
None.
cmp ,
diff ,
sort ,
uniq
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE
Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable
Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue
6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between
this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original
IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html
.