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SDIFF

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: May 2017
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NAME

sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences

SYNOPSIS

sdiff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2

DESCRIPTION

Side-by-side merge of differences between FILE1 and FILE2.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-o, --output=FILE: operate interactively, sending output to FILE
-i, --ignore-case: consider upper- and lower-case to be the same
-E, --ignore-tab-expansion: ignore changes due to tab expansion
-Z, --ignore-trailing-space: ignore white space at line end
-b, --ignore-space-change: ignore changes in the amount of white space
-W, --ignore-all-space: ignore all white space
-B, --ignore-blank-lines: ignore changes whose lines are all blank
-I, --ignore-matching-lines=RE: ignore changes all whose lines match RE
--strip-trailing-cr: strip trailing carriage return on input
-a, --text: treat all files as text
-w, --width=NUM: output at most NUM (default 130) print columns
-l, --left-column: output only the left column of common lines
-s, --suppress-common-lines: do not output common lines
-t, --expand-tabs: expand tabs to spaces in output
--tabsize=NUM: tab stops at every NUM (default 8) print columns
-d, --minimal: try hard to find a smaller set of changes
-H, --speed-large-files: assume large files, many scattered small changes
--diff-program=PROGRAM: use PROGRAM to compare files
--help: display this help and exit
-v, --version: output version information and exit

If a FILE is '-', read standard input. Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.

AUTHOR

Written by Thomas Lord.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to: bug-diffutils@gnu.org
GNU diffutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.