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Diff Tools

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Usage

filesAreIdentical [ -b ] [ -B ] [ -i ] [ -w ] [ -I pattern ] source target ... [ --help ]

Are files identical?

Arguments

  • -b - Flag. Causes trailing blanks (spaces and tabs) to be ignored, and other strings of blanks to compare equal.
  • -B - Flag. Causes chunks that include only blank lines to be ignored.
  • -i - Flag. Ignores the case of letters. E.g., "A" will compare equal to "a".
  • -w - Flag. Ignores all blanks and tabs.
  • -I pattern - String. Optional. Ignore lines which match extended regular expression pattern.
  • source - File. Required. File to compare to.
  • target ... - File. Required. Target file to compare to. Additional files are compared to source.
  • --help - Flag. Optional. Display this help.

Return codes

  • 0 - Files are identical
  • 1 - Files differ
  • 2 - Argument error

decorate diff

Decoration for diff -U0

Usage

decorate diff leftStyle rightStyle

Removes most diff character decoration and replaces with colors

Arguments

  • leftStyle - String. Required. Style for left file lines
  • rightStyle - String. Required. Style for right file lines

Return codes

  • 0 - Success
  • 1 - Environment error
  • 2 - Argument error