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Re: desired diff feature: show common lines


From: Karl Berry
Subject: Re: desired diff feature: show common lines
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:45:46 -0500

    > I would sometimes like see the common lines of two files only. I haven't 

As long as there is any difference at all, I think you could use, say.
diff -C 9999999 file1 file2
and then filter out the changed lines with grep -v [\!+-] or whatever.

Of course, if the files are sorted, comm is better.

Best,
karl




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