SDIFF
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
NAME
sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences
SYNOPSIS
sdiff
[OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
DESCRIPTION
Side-by-side merge of file differences.
- -o FILE --output=FILE
-
Operate interactively, sending output to FILE.
- -i --ignore-case
-
Consider upper- and lower-case to be the same.
- -E --ignore-tab-expansion
-
Ignore changes due to tab expansion.
- -b --ignore-space-change
-
Ignore changes in the amount of white space.
- -W --ignore-all-space
-
Ignore all white space.
- -B --ignore-blank-lines
-
Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
- -I RE --ignore-matching-lines=RE
-
Ignore changes whose lines all match RE.
- --strip-trailing-cr
-
Strip trailing carriage return on input.
- -a --text
-
Treat all files as text.
- -w NUM --width=NUM
-
Output at most NUM (default 130) print columns.
- -l --left-column
-
Output only the left column of common lines.
- -s --suppress-common-lines
-
Do not output common lines.
- -t --expand-tabs
-
Expand tabs to spaces in output.
- --tabsize=NUM
-
Tab stops are every NUM (default 8) print columns.
- -d --minimal
-
Try hard to find a smaller set of changes.
- -H --speed-large-files
-
Assume large files and many scattered small changes.
- --diff-program=PROGRAM
-
Use PROGRAM to compare files.
- -v --version
-
Output version info.
- --help
-
Output this help.
If a FILE is `-', read standard input.
Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.
AUTHOR
Written by Thomas Lord.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: bug-diffutils@gnu.org
GNU diffutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for
sdiff
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
sdiff
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info diff
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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