SDIFF(1) DOMAIN/IX Reference Manual (SYS5) SDIFF(1)
NAME
sdiff - side-by-side difference program
USAGE
sdiff [ options ... ] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
Sdiff uses the output of diff (1) to produce a side-by-side
listing of two files to indicate those lines which differ.
Each line of the two files is printed with a blank gutter
between them if the lines are identical, a less-than charac-
ter (<) in the gutter if the line only exists in file1, a
greater-than character (>) in the gutter if the line only
exists in file2, and a pipe character (|) for differing
lines.
The following illustrates the use of these characters:
x | y
a a
b <
c <
d d
> c
OPTIONS
-w n Use the next argument, n, as the width of the out-
put line. The value of n must be greater than 20.
The default line length is 130 characters.
-l Only print the left side of any lines that are
identical.
-s Do not print identical lines.
-o output
Use output as the name of a third file created as
a user-controlled merging of file1 and file2.
Copy identical lines of file1 and file2 to output.
Print sets of differences, as produced by diff
(1), where a set of differences share a common
gutter character. After printing each set of
differences, prompt the user with a percent sign
(%) and wait for one of the following user-typed
commands:
l Append the left column to the output
file.
r Append the right column to the out-
put file.
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s Turn on silent mode; do not print
identical lines.
v Turn off silent mode.
e l Call the editor with the left
column.
e r Call the editor with the right
column.
e b Call the editor with the concatena-
tion of left and right.
e Call the editor with a zero length
file.
q Exit from the program.
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On exit from the editor, concatenate the result-
ing file on the end of the output file.
RELATED INFORMATION
diff (1), ed (1).
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