sdiff(1)

GNU sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences

sdiff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2

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

-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 all whose lines 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.

Written by Thomas Lord.

Report bugs to: bug-diffutils
GNU diffutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/>
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Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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.

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

info GNU

should give you access to the complete manual.

diff(1), diff3(1), lmbench-rccs(1)