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# 8  
Old 09-15-2014
Apparently sdiff on your system is a shell script that is acting as a front end to diff and it is not properly quoting the operands it is getting when it passes them on to diff.

You can either fix sdiff or you can rename (or make links to) the files with whitespace characters in their names to files that don't have whitespace characters in their names and use the new names as operands to sdiff.
# 9  
Old 09-15-2014
Try test\ file1 etc. What OS / shell is this?
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# 10  
Old 09-15-2014
@Don Cragun
Yeah already thought about it.
I will maybe create a temp file with the same filename and data but without spaces to use it with sdiff.

@RudiC
I'm using HPUX V11 with ksh.
# 11  
Old 09-15-2014
Just for the fun of it, you might want to try:
Code:
sdiff 'test\ file1' 'test\ file2' > Output/outputTestFilesSpaces

The single quotes will keep ksh from throwing away the backslashes when it gives them to sdiff and the shell running sdiff may then use test\ file1 and test\ file2 when invoking diff. Without looking at the sdiff script, there is no guarantee that this will work.

You should also check HP's maintenance sites to see if there is a patch for this; and, if not, file a bug report to get it fixed.

Good luck.
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# 12  
Old 09-15-2014
Nope that does also not work.

Code:
$ sdiff 'test\ file1' 'test\ file2' > Output/outputTestFilesSpaces
sdiff: Cannot open: test\ file1

But thanks for your effort.
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