svn commit: r363620 - head/usr.bin/comm

Fernando Apesteguía fernape at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 27 16:51:24 UTC 2020


Author: fernape (ports committer)
Date: Mon Jul 27 16:51:23 2020
New Revision: 363620
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363620

Log:
  comm(1): Add EXAMPLES section
  
  Add two very simple examples.
  
  Approved by:	manpages (gbe@)
  Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25344

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/comm/comm.1

Modified: head/usr.bin/comm/comm.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/comm/comm.1	Mon Jul 27 16:37:18 2020	(r363619)
+++ head/usr.bin/comm/comm.1	Mon Jul 27 16:51:23 2020	(r363620)
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"     From: @(#)comm.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 12, 2009
+.Dd July 27, 2020
 .Dt COMM 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -95,6 +95,35 @@ as described in
 .Xr environ 7 .
 .Sh EXIT STATUS
 .Ex -std
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Assuming a file named
+.Pa example.txt
+with the following contents:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+a
+b
+c
+d
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Show lines only in
+.Pa example.txt ,
+lines only in stdin and common lines:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ echo -e "B\enc" | comm example.txt -
+        B
+a
+b
+                c
+d
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Show only common lines doing case insensitive comparisons:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ echo -e "B\enc" | comm -1 -2 -i example.txt -
+b
+c
+.Ed
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr cmp 1 ,
 .Xr diff 1 ,
@@ -108,9 +137,7 @@ utility conforms to
 .Pp
 The
 .Fl i
-option is an extension to the
-.Tn POSIX
-standard.
+option is an extension to the POSIX standard.
 .Sh HISTORY
 A
 .Nm


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