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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Diff option to get line number Post 302971354 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 19th of April 2016 10:23:27 AM
Old 04-19-2016
Note: hergp's really good answer will only work with GNU diff - usually what you have with linux.
 

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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. rpmdev-diff version 1.4 June 2014 RPMDEV-DIFF(1)
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