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sdiff
—
sdiff |
[-abdilstW ] [-I
regexp] [-o
outfile] [-w
width] file1
file2 |
sdiff
displays two files side by side, with any
differences between the two highlighted as follows: new lines are marked with
‘>’; deleted lines are marked with ‘<’; and
changed lines are marked with ‘|’.
sdiff
can also be used to interactively
merge two files, prompting at each set of differences. See the
-o
option for an explanation.
The options are:
-l
-o
outfileEDITOR
and VISUAL
, below,
for details of which editor, if any, is invoked.
The commands are as follows:
l
r
s
v
e
e
l
e
r
e
b
q
sdiff
.-s
-w
widthOptions passed to diff(1) are:
-a
-b
-d
-I
regexp-i
-t
-W
-w
flag is passed to
diff(1)).sdiff
was written from scratch for the public domain by
Ray Lai
<ray@cyth.net>.
sdiff
supports all options
supported by GNU sdiff. Some options require GNU diff.
Tabs are treated as anywhere from one to eight characters wide, depending on the current column. Terminals that treat tabs as eight characters wide will look best.
sdiff
may not work with binary data.
February 21, 2007 | NetBSD 9.4 |