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Gnu Diff
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Purpose: To compare two files for differences.
Setup:
Icon Action/Meaning
---- --------------
Path1 First file to be compared (old file)
Path2 Second file to be compared (new file)
Context Context style output
Unified Unified context output
Ifdef Merged output with changes marked by
#ifdef TAG lines (TAG from the next box)
RCS RCS style output
Ed script Editor script for changing old to new
Reverse ed Ed-like output, with lines in file order
Summary Summary output, only reporting changed files
Report identical Report identical files
Recursive Search subdirectories in directory search
Menu Action/Meaning
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Expand tabs Expand tabs in the output
Force comparison Compare even if files appear to be binary
Minimal changes Guaranteed minimal set of changes (slower)
Speed up large files Use heuristics to speed comparison
Missing file is empty In directory searches, treat missing files
as empty
File label Use the given labels in the context header
Lines of context Number of lines of context to give
Context header Write lines matching this regex as headers
Ignore case Ignore differences in case
Ignore blank lines Ignore blank lines when comparing
Ignore changes in space Ignore changes in whitespace when comparing
Ignore all space Ignore all whitespace when comparing
Ignore regex Ignore lines matching the given regex
If the paths specified are filenames, those files are compared. If one
of the paths is a directory, it is searched for a file with the same
name as the other file. If both paths are directories, all files in the
directories are compared (matching files with the same name, and reporting
files which do not exist in both directories).
Note: This program is a port of the Free Software Foundation's GNU Diff
program. The whole of this application comes under the conditions
specified in the GNU general public license (see file Copying in
the application directory).