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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl: Comparing to two files and displaying the differences Post 302564998 by dont_be_hasty on Sunday 16th of October 2011 03:43:19 AM
Old 10-16-2011
I've just started learning perl as part of an IT course and this is our first task is to compare two files without using diff or comm.
 

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sccsdiff(1)						      General Commands Manual						       sccsdiff(1)

Name
       sccsdiff - compare and display SCCS delta differences

Syntax
       sccsdiff -rSID1 -rSID2 [-p] [-sn] files

Description
       The  command  compares  two versions of an SCCS file and generates the differences between the two versions.  You can specify any number of
       SCCS files, but arguments apply to all files.

Options
       -p	 Displays output using command.

       -rSID?	 Indicates deltas to be prepared.  Versions are passed to in the order given.

       -sn	 Sets number of lines each segment is to contain.  This is useful when fails due to a high system load.

Diagnostics
       ``file: No differences''
       If the two versions are the same.  Use for explanations.

Files
       temporary files

See Also
       bdiff(1), cmp(1), comm(1), diff(1), diff3(1), diffmk(1), get(1), prs(1), sccs(1), sccshelp(1)
       Guide to the Source Code Control System

																       sccsdiff(1)
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