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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Output formatting for diff -y Post 302787597 by jim mcnamara on Friday 29th of March 2013 10:51:59 PM
Old 03-29-2013
Sure. The terminal settings are doing the formatting you like. Try the script command

Example:

Code:
script foo.txt     # (this will give you a message about foo.txt)
diff -yb --suppress-common-lines file1.js file2.js
exit

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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SHTOOL-MDATE.TMP(1)					      GNU Portable Shell Tool					       SHTOOL-MDATE.TMP(1)

NAME

       shtool-mdate - GNU shtool pretty-print last modification time

SYNOPSIS

       shtool mdate [-n|--newline] [-z|--zero] [-s|--shorten] [-d|--digits] [-f|--field-sep str] [-o|--order spec] path

DESCRIPTION

       This command pretty-prints the last modification time of a given file or directory path, while still allowing one to specify the format of
       the date to display.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are available.

       -n, --newline
	   By default, output is written to stdout followed by a "newline" (ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character is
	   omitted.

       -z, --zero
	   Pads numeric day and numeric month with a leading zero. Default is to have variable width.

       -s, --shorten
	   Shortens the name of the month to a english three character abbreviation. Default is full english name. This option is silently ignored
	   when combined with -d.

       -d, --digits
	   Use digits for month. Default is to use a english name.

       -f, --field-sep str
	   Field separator string between the day month year tripple. Default is a single space character.

       -o, --order spec
	   Specifies order of the day month year elements within the tripple. Each element represented as a single character out of ``"d"'',
	   ``"m"'' and ``"y"''. The default for spec is ``"dmy"''.

EXAMPLE

	#   shell script
	shtool mdate -n /
	shtool mdate -f '/' -z -d -o ymd foo.txt
	shtool mdate -f '-' -s foo.txt

HISTORY

       The GNU shtool mdate command was originally written by Ulrich Drepper in 1995 and revised by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in
       1998 for inclusion into GNU shtool.

SEE ALSO

       shtool(1), date(1), ls(1).

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