Tired of looking at strings of "28,30d27" characters separating the differences between files you're comparing? Try a side by side diff listing that works the way your brain does.
It is not really necessary to add diffutils to Solaris for side-by-side diff comparisons. It may be useful for consistency in scripts, but side-by-side diff is more of a human interface and not really a scripting tool.
I have been using Solaris (on SPARC) for about 13 years (and SunOS before that). It has always had sdiff. I can't remember if it was in SunOS since that was a while ago.
As I recall, sdiff was used under the graphical interface for WorkShop (the compiler tools).
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As always I enjoyed your article Sandra. Just wanted to add I've come to really like using tkdiff, a very nice graphical wrapper around diff that is very portable. I found it here http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkdiff .
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Great article Sandra, as always. For Mac OS X users can use opendiff command. it opens files in graphical environment and points out the differences.
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Solaris has always (?) had sdiff
It is not really necessary to add diffutils to Solaris for side-by-side diff comparisons. It may be useful for consistency in scripts, but side-by-side diff is more of a human interface and not really a scripting tool.I have been using Solaris (on SPARC) for about 13 years (and SunOS before that). It has always had sdiff. I can't remember if it was in SunOS since that was a while ago.
As I recall, sdiff was used under the graphical interface for WorkShop (the compiler tools).
Gerard
tkdiff
As always I enjoyed your article Sandra. Just wanted to add I've come to really like using tkdiff, a very nice graphical wrapper around diff that is very portable. I found it here http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkdiff .Mac OS X Users
Great article Sandra, as always. For Mac OS X users can use opendiff command. it opens files in graphical environment and points out the differences.vimdiff
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