Timeline for Binary diff/patch for large files on linux?
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| Feb 3, 2020 at 20:55 | comment | added | Basj |
@TorKlingberg Could you post a new answer with a example? Let's say file1 and file2 are two similar files of 1GB each. 1) How to compute the diff? 2) How to save this diff into a patch file? 3) How to apply this patch file to file1 to recover file2?
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| Sep 13, 2016 at 9:10 | comment | added | Tor Klingberg |
To answer my own question, creating a delta with rdiff is a two step process. First create a signature file from the old file, then use the signature and new file to create the delta. They can be run together with rdiff signature oldfile | rdiff delta - newfile deltafile
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| Sep 12, 2016 at 12:54 | comment | added | Tor Klingberg | What does "signature" and "delta" mean for rdiff? The man page doesn't say. | |
| May 13, 2011 at 15:13 | vote | accept | thejh | ||
| May 13, 2011 at 14:20 | history | edited | njd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 13, 2011 at 14:13 | history | answered | njd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |