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How to only add lines using patch?
I'd like to be able to use diff & patch in order to write new lines to a file. To clarify what I mean a bit:
Original file: test1.repo
exclude=mongo*
exclude=sqlite*
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How to diff part of a file
I want to diff only the first line of two files, as opposed to the entire file. How would I do that? I only need a solution for the the first line, but if you could specify the number of lines that ...
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How can I get a diff-like comparison of two files without the “change” sections?
I have two files that I would like to compare in terms of additions and deletions only. For example, if I diff these two files:
start
old
old
old
end
and:
start
old
old but now new
new
new
end
I ...
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How can I compare two files, from a website, on the command line?
I need to do the following: Basically, I want to be able to compare two text (or text-equivalent, i.e. not binary) files which are held on a website, e.g.:
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How to open local files for diffing in Kompare from command line?
When I use meld to obtain visual diff, I can merely run this from the command line:
$ meld file1.txt file2.txt
... and meld starts, loads each file in a separate subwindow, and shows the ...
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Is there a tool to measure file difference percentage?
I am looking to compare two text files. Normally, I can just use diff to compare the two files to see the differences. This is great, except that I am more concerned with the percentage difference of ...
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How to diff directories for different files, but not line-by-line
I want to see, recursively, files that are different in two directories. Diff can do this, but it shows me the line-by-line differences, which I don't want. Is there a tool that does this, or a way to ...
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3answers
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How can I get diff to show only added and deleted lines
How can I get the unix command diff show only added and deleted lines? If diff can't do it, what tool can?
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Windows Command Line Binary Diff Tools
does anyone know of any windows command line diff tools that are free? I need to compare two binary files and see if they are different or not. Im not interested in how they are different i just need ...
