diff - Command-line tool to display the differences between two files, or each corresponding file in two directories.
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how to compare 2 shell script files and find the differences? [on hold]
I have 2 shell scripts, I need to compare the 2 scripts and find out the differences. I already tried using diff, but not accurate. please suggest any other way ?
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Apply patch to file that's under Git without using Git? [migrated]
I checked out the latest OpenSSL from Git:
git clone git://git.openssl.org/openssl.git
One of the devs sent me a patch for AARCH64 to test:
$ cat RT4237.diff
diff --git ...
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Color output of linux command similar to 'watch -d' to highlight differences?
I'm at the beginning of shell scripting etc. and a bit challenged to find the proper way of colorzing a command's repeating output, similar to the -d option in the watch command.
I want to see the ...
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diff without including removed content
I'm using diff and patch to patch some files. In my situation, I am not permitted to distribute any of the original file.
Right now, the diffs look something like this:
1c1
< Hello, this is the ...
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Search directories for multi line string
Looking for a way to recursively search a repository for all files containing a multi line string and return the file names that contain it. The paragraph is just a header approx 30 lines.
So I know ...
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diffing two version of software,and do the interdiff
I have got some kind of software in version 1.2.0 (lets call it 120), my colleagues made changes in this software (they created custom module for this software by changing source code of software) ...
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Patching diff-files
I've downloaded a tarballed version of 0.85 "MTR" -> http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
and installed it.
I later saw that a 0.86 diff file exists. I downloaded this in order to patch it, but am confused ...
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diff consuming huge amount of memory and cpu
I have two files, all.txt (525,953,272 records) and subset.txt (525,298,281 records). Each record is nothing but a 17-digit ASCII integer. Both files have been sorted, and duplicate records within ...
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Compare a certain lines from multiple documents
I want to compare a certain lines in a multiple documents. I tried using diff and comm, but the conditions are these,
the documents are in a different working directory/folder, I could use a ...
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What do the numbers in the “@@” line mean in output of diff? [duplicate]
Here is an example of Unix Shell program diff, from Version Control with Git, by Loeliger, 2ed:
Let’s look at the diff in detail.
In the header, the original file is denoted by - - - and ...
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diff characterwise
Is there a stable tool (option/plugin of an existing tool: vimdiff, diff, etc) in Linux to do diff between two text files characterwise?
I would like to see the longest common subsequence between my ...
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Packaging a directory and its contents as a diff patch?
I have a small project folder with text files, which I'd like to post somewhere in order to ask a question on a forum. Let's take, in the simplest case, that I have something like this:
mkdir aaa
cd ...
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diff reports the same line as different in 2 files
I have 2 files containing a list of songs.
hdsongs.txt and sdsongs.txt
I wrote a simple script to list all songs and output to text files, to then run a diff against.
It works fine for the most part, ...
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What is causing `diff` to run `git diff`?
I'd like to use diff as described here and in the documentation I see when I type man diff. However, when I type diff, what I get is this:
~ ❯❯❯ diff
usage: git diff --no-index <path> ...
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Compare two files, while overriding second file's size
I am trying to verify a backup that I made using the following command:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc2
I backed up the contents of /dev/sda (internal hard drive) to
/dev/sdc2 (external backup drive, ...
