[ale] diff being boneheaded

[Brian Mathis]

Maybe you want the 'comm' command instead of diff?




❧ Brian Mathis


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got 2 text files  > 6M lines each. Each file is sorted in dictionary
> order. diff is flagging identical lines between them as different but not
> all lines.
>
> I look at the output and can see no reason why they are flagged except for
> maybe one line is too far away from the same line in the other file.
>
> There is some crap from a mac backup list that was in a different codepage
> but I think I've fixed that.
>
> Ideas on how to tell diff to ignore the line count between lines?
> Basically all I want is a fast "these lines are not in the other file" for
> both files.
>
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