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Revision as of 20:50, 8 June 2019
On unix systems find differences between 2 files
- diff file1 file2
- diff -u file1 file2
- diff -U <num> file1 file2
- Report all differences between the files
- Lines starting with < (-) need to be removed and starting with > (+) need to be added to go from file1 to file2
-u -Ualso report some lines before and after the actual difference (the context) (default 3) with-U <num>you can specify the number of context lines.