in reply to diff vs diff -y

I'm not sure from your description but are you wanting to only show lines that are different? If so

diff -y --suppress-common-lines file1 file2

could be what you need. I hope I haven't misunderstood your requirement.

Cheers,

JohnGG

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Re^2: diff vs diff -y
by MissPerl (Sexton) on Oct 22, 2018 at 13:33 UTC
    Hi johngg, yes this is part of what i am looking for ! Thanks for the help ! :)