A general sed question

2009-10-07 Thread David Allen
I keep bumping up against this, so I thought I'd throw this question out to those who understand sed better than I do. What I'm trying to do is to clean up the contents of some files (/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC would be a good example) to get more readable diffs. To that end, I'm trying to use sed

Re: A general sed question

2009-10-07 Thread Nerius Landys
Uh, I know I'm stating the obvious, but you might try these 2 techniques to enhance your diff experience: 1. Use diff -w. 2. Do cat filename | sort filename.sorted for both files you are diffing, and then compare both sorted files. ___

Re: A general sed question

2009-10-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
David Allen the.real.david.al...@gmail.com wrote: I keep bumping up against this, so I thought I'd throw this question out to those who understand sed better than I do. What I'm trying to do is to clean up the contents of some files (/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC would be a good example) to

Re: A general sed question

2009-10-07 Thread George Davidovich
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:45:36PM -0700, David Allen wrote: I keep bumping up against this, so I thought I'd throw this question out to those who understand sed better than I do. What I'm trying to do is to clean up the contents of some files (/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC would be a good example)