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In Emacs, how do I inspect what has been modified in a buffer (before saving and overwriting the file)?

In Emacs, how do I inspect what has been modified in a buffer (before saving and overwriting the file)? (In a sense, the requested action is an analog of git status and git add -i showing what has ...
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Comparing files and their properties

I get information of a certain set of files in my mail every day, which looks like this: 58623208 Sep 14 20:08 blbn_blfbe_drv 57904920 Sep 14 19:54 blbn_cycmn 55814208 Sep 14 06:02 clsa_Upd 38912000 ...
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Compare all text files in a directory, and sort by similarity

In Unix, is there any way to compare every text file in a directory to every other text file in the directory, and then sort each pair of files by similarity (using the diff utility)? There are ...
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Is there an application to find similar documents?

Is there any good software that finds groups of multiple files that are similar, or where one file includes a part of another? I have a directory with lots of files mixed up. Among the files, are ...