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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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Compare and partly merge multiple projects without common ancestor
I'm looking for a way to compare/diff 3+ different, strongly related projects, none of which is the others' common ancestor and copy around ("merge") single chunks,
and specifically test files.
I do ...
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Compare three or more Word documents (*.docx)
I've seen multiple questions and answers for how to compare two Word documents, and I've seen some questions and answers for how to compare three or more raw text files, but I'm struggling to find a ...
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Compare two documents, find similar sentences
I am trying to compare two text files documents (40 pages+) that seem to have similar sentences scattered around them. I would like to detect these similarities somehow. The first idea that popped ...
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diff stop after first difference
I'd like to perform a diff on 2 files and have it cease at the first difference. I don't require that the command be done via diff, of course, but I do require that the actual command cease once the ...
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How can I diff two files and get what is different in the second one as an output
What's easiest way to diff two files, check what is different in the second one and get it as output? I'm comparing two css files, and rest is the same only colors are different.
PS: I also want to ...
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How can I quickly compare two directories skipping hard linked files that exist in both directories in linux
I have two directories that I would like to compare. The first directory contains an rsync backup of many thousands of folders and files. The second directory contains hard links to all of the files ...
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How to find similarities in two text files?
Given two text files, how can I find passages that are alike? I know that I can use Meld or another diff tool to show the differences, but how to do the reverse thing?
For example, here are two texts ...
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Diffing an entire hard drive, available tools?
There's an existing question similar to this that didn't get answered in the proper context (a massive volume of data to compare) at all, so I'm trying again here.
I'm using SuperDuper to maintain a ...
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Remove difference b/w PC and Unix Text in beyond compare
My problem is I'm try to compare two folders which are almost same but some little difference.
But when I compare both of the folders then it shows difference in each file.
When i open the file its ...
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How can I get a diff-like comparison of two files without the “change” sections?
I have two files that I would like to compare in terms of additions and deletions only. For example, if I diff these two files:
start
old
old
old
end
and:
start
old
old but now new
new
new
end
I ...
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Difference between folders
How can I compare recursively 2 folders with same structure.
With using diff or git diff from bash command line?
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Comparing files for similarities
Is there a standard Linux tool that looks for similarities between two files? The diff tool works best comparing files that are mostly the same, and outputs where they differ. I'm looking for a tool ...
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How can I compare two files, from a website, on the command line?
I need to do the following: Basically, I want to be able to compare two text (or text-equivalent, i.e. not binary) files which are held on a website, e.g.:
http://server01/home/compare/file1.RPGLE....
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View incremental diffs of my revisions to files using Dropbox
Sometimes I use a simple editor like Notepad++ to edit my webpages on Dropbox.
Notepad++, not being an über-editor or IDE, does not track file changes for me.
But Dropbox does!!
Has anybody ...
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