Technical Notes

Manpages - sdiff.1

NAME

sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences

SYNOPSIS

sdiff [/OPTION/]… FILE1 FILE2

DESCRIPTION

Side-by-side merge of differences between FILE1 and FILE2.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-o, *–output*=/FILE/
operate interactively, sending output to FILE
-i, –ignore-case
consider upper- and lower-case to be the same
-E, –ignore-tab-expansion
ignore changes due to tab expansion
-Z, –ignore-trailing-space
ignore white space at line end
-b, –ignore-space-change
ignore changes in the amount of white space
-W, –ignore-all-space
ignore all white space
-B, –ignore-blank-lines
ignore changes whose lines are all blank
-I, *–ignore-matching-lines*=/RE/
ignore changes all whose lines match RE
–strip-trailing-cr
strip trailing carriage return on input
-a, –text
treat all files as text
-w, *–width*=/NUM/
output at most NUM (default 130) print columns
-l, –left-column
output only the left column of common lines
-s, –suppress-common-lines
do not output common lines
-t, –expand-tabs
expand tabs to spaces in output
*–tabsize*=/NUM/
tab stops at every NUM (default 8) print columns
-d, –minimal
try hard to find a smaller set of changes
-H, –speed-large-files
assume large files, many scattered small changes
*–diff-program*=/PROGRAM/
use PROGRAM to compare files
–help
display this help and exit
-v, –version
output version information and exit

If a FILE is '-', read standard input. Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.

AUTHOR

Written by Thomas Lord.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to: [email protected]
GNU diffutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

*cmp*(1), *diff*(1), *diff3*(1)

The full documentation for sdiff is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sdiff programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info sdiff

should give you access to the complete manual.