NAME¶

sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences

SYNOPSIS¶

sdiff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2

DESCRIPTION¶

Side-by-side merge of differences between FILE1 and FILE2.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-o, --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

-Z, --ignore-trailing-space

ignore white space at line end

-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, --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, --width=NUM

output at most NUM (default 130) print columns

-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

--tabsize=NUM

tab stops at every NUM (default 8) print columns

-d, --minimal

try hard to find a smaller set of changes

-H, --speed-large-files

assume large files, many scattered small changes

--diff-program=PROGRAM

use PROGRAM to compare files

--help

display this help and exit

-v, --version

output version information and exit

If a FILE is `-', read standard input. Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.

AUTHOR¶

Written by Thomas Lord.

REPORTING BUGS¶

Report bugs to: bug-diffutils@gnu.org
GNU diffutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO¶

cmp(1), diff(1), diff3(1)

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 sdiff

should give you access to the complete manual.