Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Compare Files and Directories

compare two directoriesdiff /directory1 /directory2
compare two filescmp file1 file2
compare two files and show specific differences-i=ignore case-b=ignore blanks-w=ignore spaces and tabsdiff -iwb file1 file2
compare two files side-by-side| lines are the same< line is in first file only> line is in second file onlysdiff file1 file2
compare two files side-by-side showing only differencessdiff -s file1 file2

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