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Old 10-08-2008
treesloth treesloth is offline
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The diff command seems ideal for this. In particular:


Code:
diff -y file1 file2

This will give a side-by-side comparison. The man page lists more options than I've ever dreamed of using, but -y seems to answer your needs.