On Jan 08, 2016, at 18:04, Lee Hinde <[email protected]> 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 "[email protected]" 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
