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The script compares different type of files (properties files that have many stanzas, list of stanzas, files that contain crontab listing, ...)

It creates an HTML email and I simply have it...

Thanks for all your help. There was a little gotcha with each approach so I ended up using colors to distinguish between the entries from the files.

Thank you. The leading - and + are used to identify the entries coming from files and are important. I am going to try this and see if that works in all cases (I have multiple files that are being...

The sample files that I created are not identical. One has extra periods (.) at the end.

Thanks. I must have the lines on separate lines (the lines are long and are written into an HTML table for readability).

The string "diff" does exist in both files (I created the files to show an example). I realize that diff has the ability to provide differences for the purpose of merging files, I am not interested...

Is there a way to tell diff to show differences one line at a time and not to group them? For example, I have two files:

file1:
line 1
line 2
line 3 diff
line 4 diff
line 5 diff
line 6...