Re: Not a bug but suggestion.sdiff in diffutils

[Paul Eggert]

Krzysztof Mokrzycki <address@hidden> writes:

> i upgraded to new version but in new version there is no possibility
> to display line number

I'm not familiar with that option in any sdiff.  Can you please point
us to some documentation?  Thanks.

> I am using sdiff(2.8.1) and in this version there is no
> "ignore-all-space" option

Odd; there is one in my version.

  501-penguin $ sdiff --version
  sdiff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.1
  Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
  You may redistribute copies of this program
  under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
  For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

  Written by Thomas Lord.
  502-penguin $ sdiff --help
  Usage: sdiff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
  Side-by-side merge of file differences.

    -o FILE  --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.
    -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 RE  --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 NUM  --width=NUM  Output at most NUM (default 130) columns per line.
    -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.

    -d  --minimal  Try hard to find a smaller set of changes.
    -H  --speed-large-files  Assume large files and many scattered small 
changes.
    --diff-program=PROGRAM  Use PROGRAM to compare files.

    -v  --version  Output version info.
    --help  Output this help.

  If a FILE is `-', read standard input.

  Report bugs to <address@hidden>.