Phil A. Lefebvre wrote: > On 3/5/03 at 3:51 PM -0500, Phillip Meza wrote: > >>On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 03:44 PM, Peter R. Wood wrote: >> >> >>> In Mac OS X: >>> >>> 1) Bring up Terminal >>> 2) Type: >>> >>> sdiff <file1> <file2> | less >>> >>> 3) Hit the space bar to page through. >>> >>> Free, simple, and already included with Mac OS X. >>> >> >> > Peter > > > Thanks for the tip. Can you elaborate a bit for a Terminal newbie. I > copied the paths to the 2 files I wanted and subbed them for "file1" > and "file2" but I get an error "missing name for redirect." Any help?
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