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Re: Answer: How do I compare the lines in two text file?
by KurtSchwind (Chaplain) on Jan 29, 2008 at 13:15 UTC

    That looks like a decent windows tool.

    If you are in *nix though, there's diff. And more specifically, if you are using gnu's diff (which is available just about everywhere) you can do this:

    diff -y fileA fileB
    Which does a side-by-side diff, which is really handy at times.

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Re: Answer: How do I compare the lines in two text file?
by m.att (Pilgrim) on Jan 31, 2008 at 17:23 UTC

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