On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:27:18 -0400, Sridhar Hannenhalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to bug-textutils: > Please look at the output of script below. "3" is common between the 2 > files but comm doesn't output that with -12 option.
Would there happen to be an invisible control character, or perhaps just some whitespace characters, which make the lines in the two files differ? Can you examine them with od(1) or cat -v or some similar tool? I am unable to repro this with comm from textutils 2.0 on Debian stable, or coreutils 5.0.91 on Debian testing. The GNU text, file, and shell utilities have been merged into a single package called coreutils. Perhaps you could check whether the latest coreutils release behaves correctly if you download and compile it. See <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> for download links and more information. If in fact you have a bug, you should definitely indicate the output of comm --version in your bug report. (If it doesn't have --version it's probably not even from GNU textutils but rather some vendor's own implementation.) Hope this helps, /* era */ Just a random reader of this list, not a textutils maintainer -- formail -s procmail <http://www.iki.fi/era/spam/ >http://www.euro.cauce.org/ cat | more | cat<http://www.iki.fi/era/unix/award.html>http://www.debian.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
