According to Peter Schuller: While burning my CPU.
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> > I need to compare two .config files, and have an output of what's
> > different between them. How would I do this?
>
> How do you want the output formatted?
>
> There's a program called "diff" that is the defacto standard tool for creating
> patches - mainly inteded for source code. It will prodoce a file documenting
> the changes between two files - and those changes can be applied to an old file
> using "patch".
Correct, but 'diff' has many options, more than half do not concern "patch"
files as such, if the person just wants to see the actual changes in a
laymans terms, then i would suggest doing.
diff --side-by-side file1 file2 >diffile
Or
diff -y file1 file2 >diffile which is the same command.
Use an editor to view the output as lines will be long.
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> Is that what you want?
>
> / Peter Schuller
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