On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:32:30PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I did, but the results were inconclusive.
>
> The results of diff are hard to read and understand. Finally, I just did diff
> --brief and figured I would look at the files in Gedit or something myself
> manually. Even that didn't help. And sometimes diff lied. For example, it said
> two small text files were different, but when I opened them in Gedit and
> compared them line by line they were identical, at least as to content.
As Tony pointed out diff pays attention to whitespace - in some cases that is
very relevant.
Consider using context diff, the -c option, to be presented with the most
human readable diff output.
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Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
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