Indeed you're right. Jonathan Leffler's comment on Stack Overflow discusses the differences --------- There are a couple of differences between comm and join:

Indeed you're right. Jonathan Leffler's comment on Stack Overflow discusses the differences --------- There are a couple of differences between comm and join: comm compares whole lines; join compares fields within lines. comm prints whole lines; join can print selected parts of lines. --------- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7234028/bash-difference-between-join-and-comm http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7234028/bash-difference-b...