Chris Konig Beatty wrote: > I would sometimes like see the common lines of two files only. I haven't > been able to make diff show me that, might not be its purpose.
As far as I know 'diff' doesn't support that functionality. You should look at the 'sdiff' program. It will show differences side by side and effectively shows the lines that are the same. > Would it be easily (enough) to add that functionality to diff? It really isn't the job of diff to do this. > I might miss the existence of some other tools. Obviously, there might > not be enough demand for that feature anyway. If the files are sorted the 'comm' program is designed to do this. There are a number of tools that will show the differences between two files side by side. Here are a few. emacs-emerge meld mgdiff sdiff tkdiff xxdiff Bob
