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Proposed Enhancement for 'diff'
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Tom Browder |
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Proposed Enhancement for 'diff' |
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Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:10:25 -0600 |
I have used diff for many years and could not get along without it.
However, I have three suggestions that would be helpful to me (and
maybe others):
1. Similar to the "exclude" options for recursive operations, develop
a set of "include" options. That would help for many common
situations where we want a quick look at directory comparisons but
only for files ending in, say, /\.txt/.
2. Allow a user-supplied string to separate the two halves of a
side-by-side output format.
3. When using side-by-side format, have diff output the length of the
longest line found for all the files seen. That would allow us to
redo the diff without truncation.
I have downloaded the source and will see if I can propose patches,
but perhaps these ideas are already being considered or there is an
easy work-around.
Thanks.
-Tom
Tom Browder
Niceville, Florida
USA
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