Questions tagged [diff]
diff is a shell command to find differences between two files. It is common on all *nix based systems
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Cygwin bash script file fails silently
I have a script file that uses rsync for backup, then compares the two directory trees using diff. diff seems to find all the differences correctly - it matches what WinMerge finds. But when there ...
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How to compare TIFF files with fields tagged 37680 (0x9330)?
Let's assume two TIFF files which are probably the same except their tags (according to a Web search) “MSPropertySetStorage” / “OLE Property Set Storage”:
$ ls -l f1.tif f2.tif | cut -d ' ' -f 5,11
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How to command pv (Pipe Viewer) to work with diff?
using:
OS: Kubuntu 22.04.3 LTS x86_64
diff (GNU diffutils) 3.8 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
pv 1.8.0 Copyright 2023 Andrew Wood, pv = Pipe Viewer
commands to display above:
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On Linux, how can one diff directories, excluding files by name, but including directories of the same name?
Consider the following dir/file structure (all leaf nodes are regular files, not that it really matters):
$ tree
.
├── cool_1
│ ├── dumb
│ │ ├── file1
│ │ └── file2
│ └── foo
│ └── ...
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exclude all directories and subdirectories from du/diff command in calculations
I would like to find difference in bytes in files.
However, du/diff command with -a list also directories and subdirectories.
I want only the files in subdirectories and directories, not these ones.
I ...
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Diff with white spaces and different numerical precision
I have two files:
$cat a.txt
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1 1.000000000000000
1.109393E+01 3.670034E-01 0.000000E+00
1.109333E+01 3.669835E-01 3.636971E-02
1.110000E+01 0....
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How reliable is diff?
I copied a large directory from one volume to another (using rsync) and subsequently wanted to check whether the copy was indeed correct to verify the integrity of the data. To avoid the lengthy file ...
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TortoiseGit: How to show files with differences between branches before merging
Merging in TortoiseGit will automatically merge a file to the latest code if there are no conflicts.
However, I'd like to choose some blocks to merge only (the files don't conflict). Is it possible to ...
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borg backup is processing all files instead of modified
please advise how to correctly make borgbackup to process and copy only modified source files and their diffs to destination?
every week we make our data snapshot in cephfs:
/data/.snap/snap1/
/data/....
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How to remove the "+" and "-" after a diff comparison
I compare 2 files using Cygwin (MobaXterm) diff.
Output files have -- a and ++ b lines at the first line. I want to delete only these lines. How could I do it?
Here's my script:
#! /bin/bash
sort -...
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Compare two large text files with NO newlines
I have two large (2-3MB) text files with only a few hundred characters different. Normally diff would work fine for comparing them to find the differences. But although it's a text file, there are NO ...
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Cross-compare several files with a diff tool
Have anyone encountered the challenge of comparing several files with each other on a Mac/unix machine?
Consider a list of files 100.txt, 101.txt, 102.txt etc. in the same folder.
How can I cross-...
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BeyondCompare doesn't ignore difference in line endings (DOS/UNIX)
I am using BeyondCompare 4 on Windows 10 to compare two directories with thousands of files.
They are the basically same, but one exported from Windows, and another one from Linux. The only difference ...
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How do I create a side-by-side file diff importable as a *table* by Excel, Word, or Google Docs?
diff -y file1 file2 creates output like this:
I want to take this output and convert it to a CSV format where
the text at left is in one column,
the < or | or >, if any, is in the second ...
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What is Dropbox Sync Technology name [closed]
I remember Dropbox had (and still has, I think) a method for using less data when syncing files.
It compares the byte difference between the original file and the new version, and only uploads/...
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