Examples: comm -12 file1 file2 Print only lines present in both file1 and file2. comm -3 file1 file2 Print lines in file1 not in file2, and vice versa. comm -3 prints lines that are unique to both file1 and file2 in separate columns. comm *-23* prints the lines that are in file1 and not in file2. I hope the correction will be made soon enough. Regards, Bhargav.