On 13/11/2018 10:30, gregory guy wrote:
Hi,
I've been struggling for some time to get a colorized output in ma
console with rcsdiff, does anyone know a way to do that?
It's so much easier to read the differences in a file when there's colors.
Can this be implemented in a next release too?
To do something similar using a graphical diff program, I have a
script which wraps round the other RCS tools to achieve what I what.
Since there is a 'colordiff' program out there, you could do the same.
My script is below - the graphical diff is 'meld', so just replace
that with 'colordiff' and you'll be a good bit of the way there...
Not polished, not perfect, but works for me.....
HTH
Colin
#!/bin/bash -
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# rcsmeld Script to do visual diff on RCS files, diffing from a
# previous version.
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
VERSION=''
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
FILE=$1
elif [ $# -eq 2 ]
then
FILE=$2
VERSION=$1
else
echo "Usage: rcsmeld [ Version ] File"
exit 0
fi
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# This bit allows there to be more than one instance of rcsmeld
# running in a directory at a time. The while loop finds the first
# .xxdiff file that doesn't already exist, then uses it.
i=1
TARGET=.xxdiff$i
while [ -f $TARGET ]
do
i=$[ $i + 1 ]
TARGET=.xxdiff$i
done
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Now actually get the previous version and compare it to the current
# version, and clean up afterwards.
co -p$VERSION $FILE > $TARGET
meld $FILE $TARGET
rm -f $TARGET
exit 0
--
Cheers
Colin
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Colin Brough [email protected]
