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. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate && Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: Try the Moo Shu Pork. It is especially good today. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug