GNU sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences
sdiff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
Side-by-side merge of differences between FILE1 and FILE2.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
options too.
- -o,
--output=FILE
- operate interactively, sending output to FILE
- -i,
--ignore-case
- consider upper- and lower-case to be the same
- -E,
--ignore-tab-expansion
- ignore changes due to tab expansion
- -Z,
--ignore-trailing-space
- ignore white space at line end
- -b,
--ignore-space-change
- ignore changes in the amount of white space
- -W,
--ignore-all-space
- ignore all white space
- -B,
--ignore-blank-lines
- ignore changes whose lines are all blank
- -I,
--ignore-matching-lines=RE
- ignore changes all whose lines match RE
- --strip-trailing-cr
- strip trailing carriage return on input
- -a, --text
- treat all files as text
- -w,
--width=NUM
- output at most NUM (default 130) print columns
- -l,
--left-column
- output only the left column of common lines
- -s,
--suppress-common-lines
- do not output common lines
- -t,
--expand-tabs
- expand tabs to spaces in output
- --tabsize=NUM
- tab stops at every NUM (default 8) print columns
- -d, --minimal
- try hard to find a smaller set of changes
- -H,
--speed-large-files
- assume large files, many scattered small changes
- --diff-program=PROGRAM
- use PROGRAM to compare files
- --help
- display this help and exit
- -v, --version
- output version information and exit
If a FILE is '-', read standard input. Exit status is 0 if inputs
are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.
Report bugs to: bug-diffutils@gnu.org
GNU diffutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License
GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
cmp(1), diff(1), diff3(1)
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