Subject: bug#24929: comm enhancement proposal: --print-summary --quiet

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:30:03 +0100

On 11/12/2016 12:24 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Please add a comm --print-summary and --quiet, so we wouldn't have to write
> $ comm FILE1 FILE2|perl -nwe '
> /^\t+/;
> $h{ length $& || 0 }++;
> 
> END {
>     @L = ( "Lines in 1st ", "Lines in 2nd ", "Lines in both" );
>     printf "%s: %5d\n", $L[$_], $h{$_} for sort keys %h;
> }
> '
> Lines in 1st :   601
> Lines in 2nd :   437
> Lines in both:  2417

This sounds like a domain of diffstat(1), doesn't it?

Have a nice day,
Berny