GNU bug report logs - #34522
Bug in --help command of comm --help

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Sai Bhargav Varanasi <saibhargav97v <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 06:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Sai Bhargav Varanasi <saibhargav97v <at> gmail.com>, 34522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34522: Bug in --help command of comm --help
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.





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