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Re: question regarding post-installed packages



On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 05:08:35PM +0200, Christian wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
> 
> thanks a lot for your reply. 😁
> 
> > It's unclear what exactly '/comm -23' is supposed to be
> 
> Well, from the man pages (man comm) :
> 
> /comm [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2//

Your mail user agent (or your editor) appears to be adding forward slash
characters to lines, perhaps to represent "this is terminal input/output",
or "use a fixed-width font", or something similar.

These slash characters are causing some confusion.

> //
> //DESCRIPTION//
> //       Compare sorted files FILE1 and FILE2 line by line.

They're a bit messy.  It takes some guesswork to extract the valid shell
command from inside the slashed-up text, especially when the number of
slashes added per line is variable.


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