On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM Gisle Vanem via bug-diffutils via All diffutils discussion. <bug-diffutils@gnu.org> wrote: > [...] > So how can I use diff to *not* ignore spaces inside C-stings, > but ignore trailing/leading spaces? A regular expression?
In bash: sedexpr='s/^ *//;s/ *$//' diff <(sed "$sedexpr" file-1.c) <(sed "$sedexpr" file-2.c) -- Robert Webb
