On Jan 08, 2016, at 18:04, Lee Hinde <leehi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm doing a Find Differences between two files. I want to copy just the lines > that are different, from both files, into a new document so I can send that > to someone. ______________________________________________________________________
Hey Lee, That's really simple from the command-line. # Run from a BBEdit Worksheet: diff "/Users/chris/Downloads/Test 01.txt" "/Users/chris/Downloads/Test 02.txt" | sed -En '/[<>]/p' > Sometimes you feel like a nut. > Testarossa! < The ravenous wolf chased Little Red Riding Hood up a tree. < Nervous nellies eshew the command-line. > Some more text to test with. The greater-than and less-than symbols point to which file the line shows up in. The different lines are in order from top to bottom. >From there it's easy to massage the text into the form you want. Here's an example script (run using menu #! > Run in BBEdit): #! /usr/bin/env bash FILE01="/Users/myUserName/Downloads/Test 01.txt"; FILE02="/Users/myUserName/Downloads/Test 02.txt"; diffText=$(diff "$FILE01" "$FILE02" | sed -En '/[<>]/p'); file01Lines=$(sed -En '/^</p' <<< "$diffText"); file02Lines=$(sed -En '/^>/p' <<< "$diffText"); file01Lines=$(sed -E 's!^[<][[:blank:]]*!!' <<< "$file01Lines"); file02Lines=$(sed -E 's!^[>][[:blank:]]*!!' <<< "$file02Lines"); echo $FILE01; echo ""; echo "$file01Lines" echo ""; echo $FILE02; echo ""; echo "$file02Lines" # OUTPUT ================================================================================ Jan 09, 2016, 09:21:42 untitled text 345 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Users/chris/Downloads/Test 01.txt The ravenous wolf chased Little Red Riding Hood up a tree. Nervous nellies eshew the command-line. /Users/chris/Downloads/Test 02.txt Sometimes you feel like a nut. Testarossa! Some more text to test with. -- Best Regards, Chris -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
