Doing a diff without touching the command line

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Diff option to get line number

Hi, I am using the below command to get the diff output of two files. Here in the output file, I wish to add line number in front of each line starting position. Please suggest the diff options or some command line utilities. diff -y file1.txt file2.txt --width=300 > diff_f1_f2_300.txt...

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Help with diff command

Platform :Oracle Linux 6.4 Shell : bash In the below sample, although the lines in a.txt and b.txt are jumbled up, there is only one difference : b.txt has an extra line NETHERLANDS $ cat a.txt SPAIN NORTH KOREA PORTUGAL GERMANY SYRIA $ $ $ cat b.txt GERMANY NORTH KOREA SPAIN...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

remove commas if touching any letters

I have a csv file that I am trying to edit. I need to remove any comma that is touching a letter. I used this command to find them. grep , moz_places_good.csv | head -n 10 | grep ,I would think I could use some form of this to just delete the commas and not the letter before it. Just not sure...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help needed for diff to ignore a line with certain pattern

Hello Guys, I request anyone to do me a small help in using diff command for following. I am trying to compare two files for content and wish to keep the content after the comparison (The resultant file can't be blank) However, the first lines would be different in both files and I need diff...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

rouch acts strange after touching around

hi there Strange title? Well yes...it is strange..."touch" is driving me nutts! Trying to set the access / modified date by a bash script. For a certain time everything works well with all files. After point x the code works only for some files, for others it doesn't. After looking for the ...

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Touching files?

So, I think this is a really stupid question, but I'd like to see if I am right. If the following commands are entered: umask 000 touch file1 umask111 touch file2 ...nothing should happen...right? The touch operation isn't going to apply any changes from umask to file1 (and same to...

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Changing rights without touching user and group?

Hello, I have a small problem and would be happy if someone could help me to find a solution: A machine ("server") makes backups of different computers ("clients") using rsync. Users and groups are keept, so that it's possible to copy them back to the client if required. The number of groups...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

need help in diff command :

i have 2 file named test1,test2 contents of test1: 1 2 3 --------------------------- contents of test2: 1 2 3 4 5 -------------------------------------------------------- my desired o/p should be: diff test2 test1 4

9. Programming

touching a file which contains slash char

i need to create a file which contains (/) character. Any help to do this

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to diff two files line by line

Hi, Is there any way to achieve diff of two files line by line. for eg, a.txt a b c d e b.txt f g h i j

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

meld

MELD(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   MELD(1)

NAME

       meld - Visual diff and merge tool for the GNOME Desktop

SYNOPSIS

       meld [options]
       meld [options] FILE1
       meld [options] DIR1
       meld [options] FILE1 FILE2 [FILE3]
       meld [options] DIR1 DIR2 [DIR3]

DESCRIPTION

       Meld  is  a  graphical diff viewer and merge application for the Gnome desktop.	It supports 2 and 3-file diffs, recursive directory diffs,
       diffing of directories under version control (Arch, Bazaar, Codeville, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS), as well as  the  ability
       to manually and automatically merge file differences.

OPTIONS

       --auto-compare, -a
	      Automatically compare all differing files on startup.

       --diff FILE1|DIR1 FILE2|DIR2 [FILE3|DIR3]
	      Create a diff tab for the given files or directories.  Note that "meld --diff FILE1 FILE2" is functionally equivalent to "meld FILE1
	      FILE2".  However, the --diff argument can be given multiple times for one invocation of meld which allows the user to  automatically
	      initiate multiple diffs when meld starts.  See examples below.

       --help, -h
	      Print application help and usage.

       --LABEL=<label>, -L <label>
	      Set application window title to <label>.

       --version
	      Print application version and exit.

EXAMPLES

       meld
	      Run meld without initiating a diff.

       meld FILE1
	      Initiate a diff between FILE1 and the version-controlled copy of FILE1.

       meld DIR1
	      Initiate a recursive diff between DIR1 and the version-controlled copy of DIR1.

       meld FILE1 FILE2
	      Initiate a diff between FILE1 and FILE2.

       meld FILE1 FILE2 FILE3
	      Initiate a 3-way diff between FILE1, FILE2, and FILE3.

       meld DIR1 DIR2
	      Initiate a recursive diff between directory DIR1 and DIR2.

       meld DIR1 DIR2 DIR3
	      Initiate a recursive 3-way diff between directory DIR1, DIR2, and DIR3.

       meld --diff FILE1 FILE2 --diff FILE3 FILE4
	      Initiate a diff between FILE1 and FILE2, and a separate diff between FILE3 and FILE4.

BUGS

       If  you	find  a  bug,  please report it at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=meld or mail a description of the issue to meld-
       list@gnome.org.

AUTHORS

       See the AUTHORS text file in meld's source code (http://git.gnome.org/browse/meld/tree/AUTHORS).

								   26 Sept 2010 							   MELD(1)

UNIX and Linux RSS News