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Converting colored output into html

There are tools providing coloured output: dwdiff -c File1 File2 # word level diff grep --color=always # we all know this guy ... The question is: How to convert their colored output of arbitrary ...
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How can I get the most bang for my buck with the “diff” command?

I have tried using the linux diff command in the past without much luck or patience. I usually end up using a GUI utility like DiffMerge or Kdiff. Recently I started trying to use diff again to ...
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diff where lines are mostly the same but out of order?

I want to diff two sets of mod_rewrite rules. The set of lines are about 90% identical, but the order is so different that diff basically says they are completely different. How can I see which lines ...
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linux diff tools: create list of modified files

How do I create a list of modified files programmatically using linux command line tools? I'm not interested in the difference in any particular file (delta, patch). I just want to have a list of new ...
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rolling diffs for storage of highly similar files?

At work we do a nightly dump of our mysql databases. From day to day, I would guestimate that close to 90-95% of the data is duplicate, increasing as time goes on. ( Heck at this point some are ...
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diff within a line

I have some sql dumps that I am looking at the differences between. diff can obviously show me the difference between two lines, but I'm driving myself nuts trying to find which values in the long ...
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Output the common lines (similarities) of two text files (the opposite of diff)?

Diff is a great tool to display the changes between two files. But how to display the similarities of two text files (while ignoring the differences)? I.e. sample input: a: Foo Bar X Hello World 42 ...
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Can't pipe into diff?

I wanted to be clever and compare a remote file to a local file without downloading it. I can get the contents of the remote file by ssh user@remote-host "cat path/file.name" However, piping that ...
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What does 'patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line' mean?

This is the output of my patch command: Hunk #11 merged at 4184,4190. Hunk #12 merged at 4444. Hunk #13 merged at 4944. Hunk #14 NOT MERGED at 5106-5116. Hunk #15 merged at 5290. Hunk #16 merged at ...