Note : also see man diff
User Commands sdiff(1)
NAME
sdiff - print differences between two files side-by-side
SYNOPSIS
sdiff [ -l ] [ -s ] [ -o output ] [ -w n ]
filename1 filename2
DESCRIPTION
sdiff uses the output of the diff command to produce a
side-by-side listing of two files indicating lines that are
different. Lines of the two files are printed with a blank
gutter between them if the lines are identical, a < in the
gutter if the line appears only in filename1, a > in the
gutter if the line appears only in filename2, and a | for
lines that are different. (See the EXAMPLES section below.)
OPTIONS
-l Print only the left side of any lines that
are identical.
-s Do not print identical lines.
-o output Use the argument output as the name of a
third file that is created as a user-
controlled merge of filename1 and filename2.
Identical lines of filename1 and filename2
are copied to output. Sets of differences,
as produced by diff, are printed; where a set
of differences share a common gutter charac-
ter. After printing each set of differences,
sdiff prompts the user with a % and waits for
one of the following user-typed commands:
l Append the left column to the out-
put file.
r Append the right column to the out-
put file.
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.
On exit from the editor, the resulting file
is concatenated to the end of the output
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User Commands sdiff(1)
file.
-w n Use the argument n as the width of the output
line. The default line length is 130 charac-
ters.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of
sdiff when encountering files greater than or equal to 2
Gbyte (2**31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
A sample output of sdiff follows.
x | y
a a
b <
c <
d d
> c
ENVIRONMENT
If any of the LC_* variables ( LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES,
LC_TIME, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_MONETARY ) (see
environ(5)) are not set in the environment, the operational
behavior of sdiff for each corresponding locale category is
determined by the value of the LANG environment variable.
If LC_ALL is set, its contents are used to override both the
LANG and the other LC_* variables. If none of the above
variables is set in the environment, the "C" locale deter-
mines how sdiff behaves.
LC_CTYPE
Determines how sdiff handles characters. When LC_CTYPE
is set to a valid value, sdiff can display and handle
text and filenames containing valid characters for that
text and filenames containing valid characters for that
locale.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
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| ATTRIBUTE TYPE| ATTRIBUTE VALUE|
|_______________|_________________|
| Availability | SUNWesu |
| CSI | Enabled |
|_______________|_________________|
SEE ALSO
diff(1), ed(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5)
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