Re: Comparing 2 Files for differences

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 05/24/05

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Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 13:38:21 +0100

    On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 08:33 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
    > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:47:15PM +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
    > > thanx Alexander. The below is what I got. Does this mean there are no
    > > noted differences.? Cheers.
    > [...]
    > > [root@localhost php]# diff -a /usr/local/lib/php.ini
    > > /home/coolboarderguy/downloads/php/php.ini.backup
    > > [root@localhost php]#
    >
    > Yep. I personally find the 'diff -u' format to be the most readable. And if
    > you're a visual person aided by differences in color, you may want to
    > install colordiff from Fedora Extras (cdiff in current FE, colordiff in the
    > development branch). It's a filter for the output of diff that adds in
    > helpful coloring changed lines appear obviously different.

    One I've come across recently is xxdiff, a GUI frontend for diff that
    will show you the two files side by side and highlight the differences.
    It's not in Extras (yet) but I have an FC3 RPM for it at:

    http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/sysutils/

    It's based on qt so you'll need the qt libraries installed ("yum install
    qt") if you want to try it.

    Paul. 

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