comm

The comm command in the Unix family of computer operating systems is a utility that is used to compare two files for common and distinct lines. comm is specified in the POSIX standard. It has been widely available on Unix-like operating systems since the mid to late 1980s.

comm
Original author(s)Lee E. McMahon
Developer(s)AT&T Bell Laboratories, Richard Stallman, David MacKenzie
Initial releaseNovember 1973 (1973-11)
Written inC
Operating systemUnix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Inferno
PlatformCross-platform
TypeCommand
Licensecoreutils: GPLv3+
Plan 9: MIT License
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