On 21 March 2012 23:13, Fabio Pasini <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there, > > Within linux (and probably other unix flavors), you can use the "strings" > command line tool to check printable character sequences in any file. Use > "man strings" at a terminal window, for more help using it. > > The screenshot you sent has dots for non-printables characters, so I believe > that showing only printable chars would be enough
Unfortunately, I've been in plenty of situations where what I was actually interested in was the non-printable characters. > You can apply the "strings" tools to each file you want to compare, save > each output to a temp file, and then diff/meld those temp files. > > Anyways, it would be nice to have meld doing this automatically for non-text > files, when "strings" is available. This is a useful idea, but I do think that it's a very different request to having the hexdump-based comparison. It's also something that is easily scriptable, so I don't think it's something that needs to be incorporated into Meld itself. cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
