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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Get the changes before and after a script run in linux (based on date and or size)
Given a directory with a tree of directories and files inside of it, presumably containing log files.
How to know which files got changed after running a specific application.
Taking into ...
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MATLAB - Error using interp1>reshapeAndSortXandV X and V must be of the same length
I geht this error message when I try to derive my acceleration of the car. I think there is a size problem, but I don't know how to solve it.
The data is measured from a car.
meas.jerk.data = diff(...
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Diff tool for finding a minimal set of changes
I have two versions of a text file, with many changes (including whitespace, linebreak differences, etc.). All of the diff tools I have tried (diff, diff --minimal, wdiff, kdiff3, meld) fail ...
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Why is GNU diff such a memory hog? [closed]
There are enough questions asking how to diff large files, as diff can't handle them.
I'd like to know why GNU diff can't handle them.
I did a tiny experiment. I diffed two identical datasets, ...
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Local Github Compare View
I am pretty new to github, and really appreciate its compare view: it shows the differences between diffenent versions, and allows users to comment on each change. I hope I can do the same thing ...
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How to diff three binary files to show only what changed between 1 and 2 and then changed back between 2 and 3?
I have three binary files (memory dumps). Call them file1, file2, file3.
I'm trying to debug some software, and I'm toggling a switch.
file1 = switch off
file2 = switch on
file3 = switch off
I need ...
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vimdiff show differences with only parent rows
Two config files contain many blocks of the form
block name {
.....
sub block name1 {
.........
sub block name2 {
....
}
}
.....
}
Example:
Input (LHS) :
ltm ...
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How to set up diff so that it copies all modified and new files and subfolders recursively from a folder at a given interval?
How to set up diff so that it copies all modified and new files and subfolders recursively from a folder at a given interval?
Hi,
I have a folder (A) with a large number of subfolders.
I want to ...
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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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How to diff two files with same number of lines, and get only different lines
Given 2 files which have the same number of lines, is it possible the get a diff with ONLY change (c), in other words, WITHOUT additions (a) and deletions (d)?
For example, here are 2 files with 10 ...
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use diff against text files with list of files to find different files by size and/or modified date/time
I need to compare two folders to find files that are either:
different size and/or modified date/time
missing from one
I cannot run diff against the two folders in my situation. My plan was to use ...
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How to do a line insensitive difference (diff) in linux?
I have two text files where the order of lines does not matter. I want to find out the lines that are different in one file to the other. Using diff in linux finds the difference but also accounts for ...
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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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How to expand all sections in Text Compare of Beyond Compare?
I have a bunch of code differences in the Text Compare view of Beyond Compare... but they are easier to understand if the context of that block is expanded. I have many of these sections, and it's ...
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diff each individual line in first file against all lines in second file?
I have 2 TCL representations of a project that get generated by 2 different versions of the same tool, let's call them v1.tcl and v2.tcl
These logs are normally logically identical for all intents ...
