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Top Forums Programming How to replace the complex strings from a file using sed or awk? Post 302936263 by drl on Tuesday 24th of February 2015 08:43:50 AM
Old 02-24-2015
Hi, Badhrish.
Quote:
Could you please let me know where exactly to feed the input files in your code.
The heart of the solution are these lines:
Code:
diff -y --suppress-common-lines data? |
colordiff |
ansifilter -B   # -B bbcode; -H html; -L latex, etc.

the input files are are provided just like you did with with your diff, except that I called them data1 and data2, and I used the shell meta-character "?" to allow expansion of those filenames.

If you are just looking at the output at a terminal, then ansifilter is not required. I used it to produce bbcode markup to paste here. There are other uses, for example if you would be including the output in an HTML email message.
Quote:
... is there a way to get the text coloured exactly in the position where the discrepancy is? Something like below ...
Nothing occurs to me off-hand, but a Google search might be useful. If I get some time, I'll look into it.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
 

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bdiff(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          bdiff(1)

NAME
bdiff - big diff SYNOPSIS
bdiff filename1 filename2 [n] [-s] DESCRIPTION
bdiff is used in a manner analogous to diff to find which lines in filename1 and filename2 must be changed to bring the files into agree- ment. Its purpose is to allow processing of files too large for diff. If filename1 (filename2) is -, the standard input is read. bdiff ignores lines common to the beginning of both files, splits the remainder of each file into n-line segments, and invokes diff on cor- responding segments. If both optional arguments are specified, they must appear in the order indicated above. The output of bdiff is exactly that of diff, with line numbers adjusted to account for the segmenting of the files (that is, to make it look as if the files had been processed whole). Note: Because of the segmenting of the files, bdiff does not necessarily find a smallest sufficient set of file differences. OPTIONS
n The number of line segments. The value of n is 3500 by default. If the optional third argument is given and it is numeric, it is used as the value for n. This is useful in those cases in which 3500-line segments are too large for diff, causing it to fail. -s Specifies that no diagnostics are to be printed by bdiff (silent option). Note: However, this does not suppress possible diagnos- tic messages from diff, which bdiff calls. USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of bdiff when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes). FILES
/tmp/bd????? ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
diff(1), attributes(5), largefile(5) DIAGNOSTICS
Use help for explanations. SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 bdiff(1)
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