Re: [SLE] How do I check for differences...

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