Linux and Unix Shell Programming

diff

Format:

diff options file1 file2

Options:

-c	Produce a different output from the standard format (see below)
-I	Ignore character cases

Using the files file1 and file2 from our comm example, diff will output lines that are different between two files.

					$ diff file1 file2 
2,3c2,3 
< The game 
< Boys in company C 
---
> The games 
> The boys in company C
				

Diff has reported that lines 2 and 3 are different, with the second column in line 3 not matching.