[Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (diff - differences between text files line by line)
- From: kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kapil Hari Paranjape)
- Date: Tue Sep 29 06:53:00 2009
Hello,
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
$ diff file.txt file-modified.txt
Generally, one should prefer the command
$ diff -u file.txt file-modified.txt
The reason is that this maintains the _context_ information of the
differences as a result:
- the diff is more human readable
- the diff is longer :-(
- the diff can work with patch even when some unrelated changes
have been made to file.txt after the diff was created
Regards,
Kapil.
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