Sure. The terminal settings are doing the formatting you like. Try the script command
Example:
This writes output from the tty just like it appears on the screen, to foo.txt
You will have to edit the file and get rid of the first and last lines foo.txt - at least on my UNIx that is true. You may also find embedded control characters that "make it pretty" and also make it pretty useless. I can not know what exactly you will see because there are too many variables - TERM settings, as an example.
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Hello,
I want to compare two files. All records in file 2 that are not in file 1 should be output to file 3.
For example:
file 1
123
1234
123456
file 2
123
2345
23456
file 3 should have
2345
23456
I have looked at diff, bdiff, cmp, comm, diff3 without any luck! (2 Replies)
I have two CSV files and I would like to create a third CSV file containing the differences between the two.
I understand the diff command can be used to list differences between two files. My problem is that when I pipe the output into a third CSV file, the line numbers and other formatting... (3 Replies)
Hello is there a way to limit the number of lines output by the DIFF command?
I tried -C 200 ect and -c but it continues to print out the whole huge file.
Reason needed is i'm trying to do alot of DIFFs on a long list of files and would like to only get back an indicator which files are... (2 Replies)
Hi,
i need to display the mismatches from two files.The output what is get is the entire rows which mismatch from file 1 are displayed first and the corresponding rows from file 2 are displayed below it.
Sample output:
From Test Run 1 - The row count of file2.txt is 23
From Test Run 1 -... (9 Replies)
I'm asking for explanation about the output of the diff format when i compare the two files f1 and f2:
root@host1 # cat f1
205226
205237
205250
205255
205262
205274
205307
205403
205464
205477
205500
205520
205626
205759
205766
205776 (2 Replies)
I have two files to compare, but diff output doesn't give me decent output I want.
The portion of the two files are shown below.
file 1)
Authorize <1>
Transaction Database Slave 3 <1>
CPM HTTP Proxy Server <1>
SSP (TDB Server) <1>
CPM Application Authorization <7>
CPM Script... (5 Replies)
hello everyone,
I am trying to compare two files and have the result in a new files. When I used diff I am getting the header, '<' and '>' in my result which I don't want to have it in my output file. :wall:
opt/sam/input: diff file1.txt file2.txt
1,20d0
< 16,ZA,
< ZJ,08,
< Z7,03,
Any... (1 Reply)
How to get diff to not print the chevrons and the dashes? In this case the differences are all single line differences.
Also the first few lines don't matter. How to get the output to always exclude the first few lines? Thanks! (1 Reply)
I am running diff between two directories dir1 and dir2.
diff --exclude --recursive --brief -b dir1 dir2
The output of the above command is
Files dir1/java/abc/bcd/abc9991.java and dir2/java/abc/bcd/abc9991.java differ
Files dir1/java/abc/bcd/abc9933.java and... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: gaurav99
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
slack-diff
DIFF(1) User Commands DIFF(1)NAME
slack-diff - compare file contents, modes, etc
SYNOPSIS
slack-diff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
DESCRIPTION
A wrapper for diff that displays file modes and other metadata changes.
-u-U NUM --unified[=NUM]
Tell diff(1) to use unified output format.
--diff PROG
Use this program for diffing, instead of diff.
--fakediff
Make a fake diff for file modes and other things that are not file contents. Default is on, can be disabled with --nofakediff.
-r--recursive
Recursively compare any subdirectories found.
-N--new-file
Treat missing files as empty. Default is on, can be disabled with --nonew-file.
--unidirectional-new-file
Treat only missing files in the first directory as empty.
--from-file
Treat arguments as a list of files from which to read filenames to compare, two lines at a time.
-0--null
Use NULLs instead of newlines as the separator in --from-file mode.
--devnullhack
You have a version of diff that can't deal with -N when not in recursive mode, so we need to feed it /dev/null instead of the miss-
ing file. Default is on, can be disabled with --nodevnullhack.
--version
Output version info.
--help Output this help.
FILES are `FILE1 FILE2' or `DIR1 DIR2' or `DIR FILE...' or `FILE... DIR'. If --from-file or --to-file is given, there are no restrictions
on FILES. If a FILE is `-', read standard input.
SEE ALSO diff(1)diffutils 2.8.1 April 2002 DIFF(1)