Subject: Re: bug#34522: Bug in --help command of comm --help

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:44:36 -0800

tag 34522 notabug
close 34522
stop

On 17/02/19 22:17, Sai Bhargav Varanasi wrote:
> 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.

You seem to have missed the "and vice versa" part.
I was going for a concise description that was
from an alternative viewpoint to the summary
in the descriptions.

> I hope the correction will be made soon enough.

Generally statements like that are at best redundant.

thanks,
Pádraig.