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diff -dpru OLD NEW old and new can be directories.

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 01:54 pm, JB wrote:

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Hi all,

Let's say I have a text file I got one day, and a week later I get the text file again but want to compare the two to see if there are *any* differences at all between them, like the spelling of one word, or the ommission of a word or sentence, things like that?

Thanks,

JB

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Am Mittwoch, 6. September 2006 20:58 schrieb Marius Roets:

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 19:54, JB wrote:

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Hi all,

Let's say I have a text file I got one day, and a week later I get the text file again but want to compare the two to see if there are *any* differences at all between them, like the spelling of one word, or the ommission of a word or sentence, things like that?

Thanks,

If you know Vim and got GVim installed, "gvimdiff file1.txt file2.txt" works quite well. If you don't know Vim (and are not interested in learning a really powerful text editor) this might be a bit excessive for you. "diff" is always their and works very well. Only problem: it takes some getting used to, to understand the output.

Marius

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Hi, On Thursday 07 September 2006 05:02, Hans van der Merwe wrote:

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 10:36 +0200, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

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JB writes:

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Let's say I have a text file I got one day, and a week later I get the text file again but want to compare the two to see if there are *any* differences at all between them, like the spelling of one word, or the ommission of a word or sentence, things like that?

Emacs (Tools / Compare) can do it too. Contrary to diff, it uses color to mark single words. I guess other advanced text editors can do the same. -- A.M.

Or, if you dont mind KDE apps, try Kompare, one of the best compare/diff tools Ive seen. (just lacks edit options)

"Don't Mind KDE" ??? Eh? Everyone knows, KDE is ... There's also kdiff3, which is a bit fancier than Kompare. I use them both, but prefer kdiff3. jEdit has a plug-in for side-by-side difference and on Windows I use ExamDiffPro Randall Schulz