User Commands                                            SDIF(1)



NAME
     sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences

SYNOPSIS
     sdiff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2

DESCRIPTION
     Side-by-side merge of file differences.

     -o FILE  --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.

     -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 RE  --ignore-matching-lines=RE
          Ignore changes whose lines all match RE.

     --strip-trailing-cr
          Strip trailing carriage return on input.

     -a  --text
          Treat all files as text.

     -w NUM  --width=NUM
          Output at most NUM (default 130) columns per line.

     -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.

     -d  --minimal
          Try hard to find a smaller set of changes.

     -H  --speed-large-files



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User Commands                                            SDIF(1)



          Assume large files and many scattered small changes.

     --diff-program=PROGRAM
          Use PROGRAM to compare files.

     -v  --version
          Output version info.

     --help
          Output this help.

     If a FILE is `-', read standard input.

AUTHOR
     Written by Thomas Lord.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright O 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

     This program comes with NO WARANTY, to the extent permitted
     by  law.   You may redistribute copies of this program under
     the terms of the  GNU  General  Public  License.   For  more
     information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

SEE ALSO
     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 diff

     should give you access to the complete manual.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE      ATRIBUTE VALUE 
    
     Availability         SUNWgnu-diffutils
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted      
    

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    diffutils    is     available     on
     http:/opensolaris.org.




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