This is on Fedora 34 server. $ uname -a Linux fedora 5.11.16-300.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 21 13:18:33 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ comm --version comm (GNU coreutils) 8.32 Consider the 2 attached files f1.txt and f2.txt. They're already sorted. $ comm -12 f1.txt f2.txt 1O55 1O56 This means that 1055 and 1056 are in both files. However, this isn't true. $ fgrep 1055 f1.txt f2.txt f1.txt:1055 $ fgrep 1056 f1.txt f2.txt f1.txt:1056 Note that these lines are only in f1.txt. This looks like a bug. Please advise. Cordially, Jon Forrest