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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Diff for multiple files Post 302814045 by drl on Tuesday 28th of May 2013 04:06:01 PM
Old 05-28-2013
Hi.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Error404
...Afterwards, I want to start doing combinations, like available in dir1 and dir3 but not in dir2 and dir4. This sounds like a very basic command to me but, I wasn't able to come up with the right formula to do this.
You may be interested in combine:
Code:
       combine - combine sets of lines from two files using boolean operations

SYNOPSIS
       combine file1 and file2

       combine file1 not file2

       combine file1 or file2

       combine file1 xor file2
...

This is one utility in a package, moreutils, available in some distributions (Debian is where I obtained i)t. It is also maintained at moreutils

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
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rpmdev-diff

RPMDEV-DIFF(1)							   User Commands						    RPMDEV-DIFF(1)

NAME

       rpmdev-diff - manual page for rpmdev-diff version 1.4

SYNOPSIS

       rpmdev-diff [OPTION]... [DIFF-OPTIONS] FROM-ARCHIVE TO-ARCHIVE

DESCRIPTION

       rpmdev-diff diffs contents of two archives.

       See rpmdev-extract(1) for information about supported archive types.

OPTIONS

       -c, --contents
	      Diff contents of files in archives.  This is the default.

       -l, --list
	      Diff lists of files in archives.

       -L, --long-list
	      Diff long lists (akin to 'find -ls') of files in archives.

       -m, --metadata
	      Diff archive metadata (only implemented for rpms for now).

       -h, --help
	      Print help message and exit.

       -v, --version
	      Print version information and exit.

       diff-options
	      Options  passed  to  diff(1).  The first repeated argument of the above or the first argument starting with a '-' but not one of the
	      above starts diff-options, the first one not starting with it ends them.	Default: -Nup for contents (in addition to -r  which  will
	      always be passed), -U0 for others.

       More than one of -c, -l, -L, and -m may be specified.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  (C)  2004-2010  Ville Skytta <ville.skytta@iki.fi> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of  the  License,  or  (at  your
       option) any later version.

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