Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Daniel Bauer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, 6. September 2006 20:58 schrieb Marius Roets:
> On Wednesday 06 September 2006 19:54, JB wrote:
> >   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

or use kdiff3 if you like a graphical interface

in my KMenu it's somewhere under Entwicklung/Versionsverwaltung 
(development/version control)

Daniel
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