Re: How to know if two files (.c,.h,.cpp) are different content-wise ignoring the comments?

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Re^2: How to know if two files (.c,.h,.cpp) are different content-wise ignoring the comments? by iphone (Beadle) on Feb 13, 2011 at 06:45 UTC
how can a tool diff and figure out if they are different or not after stripping the comments?	[reply]
Re^3: How to know if two files (.c,.h,.cpp) are different content-wise ignoring the comments? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 13, 2011 at 07:01 UTC
Um, what? man diff	[reply]
Re^4: How to know if two files (.c,.h,.cpp) are different content-wise ignoring the comments? by iphone (Beadle) on Feb 13, 2011 at 08:38 UTC
I am trying to use diff tool but use the -I option to ignore lines that start with "File Name:".i am using the below regular expression,there is no syntax error but the diff tool still shows changes with line that starts with "File Name:".Any idea what is going wrong? `diff -I '[^\s*File\sName:]' file1 file2` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: How to know if two files (.c,.h,.cpp) are different content-wise ignoring the comments? by roboticus (Chancellor) on Feb 13, 2011 at 13:25 UTC
Re^5: How to know if two files (.c,.h,.cpp) are different content-wise ignoring the comments? by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 13, 2011 at 08:49 UTC