Hi guys,
I'm having hard timewith diffutils and I need your help. What I've done is:
-I've created a regsnapshot before installing an app (with regedit's export
function from the fullregistry)
-After installing theapp I've taken another snapshot from the registry (same
way as above)
What I would like to dois to put the new information (difference) from the
second.reg file to anotherfile with diffutils.
So far I've figured thisout to get the cleanest way:
diff -n -a before.txtafter.txt >diff.txt
I've renamed the two regfile to txt but I doubt this would matter.
But my problem when Iopen diff.txt is this:
Quote from diff.txt:
"3424a3425,3429
> [ H K E Y _ L O C A L _ M A C H I N E\ S O F T W A R E \ C l a s s e s \ * \
> s h e l l e x \ C o n t e x t M e n u Ha n d l e r s \ D e s k t o p D o c k
> S h e l l E x t ]
>
> [ H K E Y _ L O C A L _ M A C H I N E\ S O F T W A R E \ C l a s s e s \ * \
> s h e l l e x \ C o n t e x t M e n u Ha n d l e r s \ F e n c e s S h e l l
> E x t ]
> @ = " { 1 9 8 4 D D 4 5 - 5 2 CF - 4 9 c d - A B 7 7 - 1 8 F 3 7 8 F E A 2 6
> 4 } "
>
15782a15788,15799
> [ H K E Y _ L O C A L _ M A C H I N E\ S O F T W A R E \ C l a s s e s \ C L
> S I D \ { 1 9 8 4 D D 4 5 - 5 2 C F - 49 c d - A B 7 7 - 1 8 F 3 7 8 F E A 2
> 6 4 } ]
> @ = " F e n c e s S h l E x t C l a s s "
> " D i s a b l e P r o c e s s Is o l a t i o n " = d w o r d : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 1
> " L o c a l i z e d S t r i n g" = " F e n c e s "
>
> [ H K E Y _ L O C A L _ M A C H I N E\ S O F T W A R E \ C l a s s e s \ C L
> S I D \ { 1 9 8 4 D D 4 5 - 5 2 C F - 49 c d - A B 7 7 - 1 8 F 3 7 8 F E A 2
> 6 4 } \ D e f a u l t I c o n ]
> @ = " C : \ \ P r o g r a m F i l e s \ \ S t a r d o c k \ \ F e n c e s \
> \ F e n c e s M e n u .d l l , 0 "
>
> [ H K E Y _ L O C A L _ M A C H I N E\ S O F T W A R E \ C l a s s e s \ C L
> S I D \ { 1 9 8 4 D D 4 5 - 5 2 C F - 49 c d - A B 7 7 - 1 8 F 3 7 8 F E A 2
> 6 4 } \ I n p r o c S e r v e r 3 2]
> @ = " C : \ \ P r o g r a m F i l e s \ \ S t a r d o c k \ \ F e n c e s \
> \ F e n c e s M e n u .d l l "
> " T h r e a d i n g M o d e l" = " A p a r t m e n t "
>
"
Issues I got -and Ican't figure out-:
1.)How to get rid ofthe > characters from the beginning -so diffutil wouldn't
evenwrite it to there in the first place-?
2.)I dont want toinclude diffutil difference notes to the file (e.g.:
3424a3425,3429)
3.)Why diffutil addspaces after every damn character? I can't figure out how to
get rid of this-so diffutil wouldn't add a space after every character-
What I really need is totake the difference, put it in a new file, without
changing anything, so I canuse that information later through a reg file
(delete, add, whatever)?
Waiting for youranswers,
H0PE
