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SDIFF(1) User Commands SDIFF(1)
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.
Written by Thomas Lord.
Report bugs to: bug-diffutils@gnu.org
GNU diffutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Copyright © 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <http://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)
The full documentation for sdiff is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and sdiff programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info sdiff
should give you access to the complete manual.
This page is part of the diffutils (GNU diff utilities) project.
Information about the project can be found at
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diffutils 3.5.17-198c-dirty July 2017 SDIFF(1)