[9fans] diff side-by-side, an rc challange

[Steve Simon]

Hi,

I am having to dig through some data files comparing similar results,
I really need a side-by-side compare.

I believe adiff does this for acme, but I am not an acme-ista so I thought
"How hand can it be?".

I wrote the script below, but then I thought "I should be able to do this
without temporary files"

This is where my knowledge of rc(1) fails. How to create two pipes, hold
them open, and use them to shuffle bytes.

anyone care to take up the challange?

-Steve

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#!/bin/rc

tmp1=/tmp/diffsbs-1.$pid
tmp2=/tmp/diffsbs-2.$pid

fn sigint { rm -f $tmp1 $tmp2 }
fn sighup { rm -f $tmp1 $tmp2 }

if(! ~ $#* 2){
        echo usage: $0 file1 file2
        exit 'usage'
}

diff -b -a $1 $2 | awk -v 'out1='^$tmp1 -v 'out2='^$tmp2 '
        {
                key = substr($0, 1, 1);
                txt = substr($0, 2, length($0)-2);
                if(key == " "){
                        printf("%-32.32s\n", txt)               > out1
                        printf("%-32.32s\n", txt)               > out2
                }
                if(key == "-"){
                        printf("%-32.32s\n", txt)               > out1
                        printf("%-32.32s\n", "")                > out2
                }
                if(key == "+"){
                        printf("%-32.32s\n", "")                > out1
                        printf("%-32.32s\n", txt)               > out2
                }
        }'

pr -m -o0 -t -w100 -l0 $tmp1 $tmp2