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Re: [SLE] How do I check for differences...
- From: Marius Roets <roets.marius@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 18:58:14 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200609062058.22190.roets.marius@xxxxxxxxx>
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
> 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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