.\" $OpenBSD: sdiff.1,v 1.12 2007/05/31 19:20:15 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Written by Raymond Lai . .\" Public domain. .\" .Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $ .Dt SDIFF 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm sdiff .Nd side-by-side diff .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl abdilstW .Op Fl I Ar regexp .Op Fl o Ar outfile .Op Fl w Ar width .Ar file1 .Ar file2 .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm displays two files side by side, with any differences between the two highlighted as follows: new lines are marked with .Sq \*(Gt ; deleted lines are marked with .Sq \*(Lt ; and changed lines are marked with .Sq \*(Ba . .Pp .Nm can also be used to interactively merge two files, prompting at each set of differences. See the .Fl o option for an explanation. .Pp The options are: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl l Only print the left column for identical lines. .It Fl o Ar outfile Interactively merge .Ar file1 and .Ar file2 into .Ar outfile . In this mode, the user is prompted for each set of differences. See .Ev EDITOR and .Ev VISUAL , below, for details of which editor, if any, is invoked. .Pp The commands are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Cm l Choose left set of diffs. .It Cm r Choose right set of diffs. .It Cm s Silent mode \(en identical lines are not printed. .It Cm v Verbose mode \(en identical lines are printed. .It Cm e Start editing an empty file, which will be merged into .Ar outfile upon exiting the editor. .It Cm e Cm l Start editing file with left set of diffs. .It Cm e Cm r Start editing file with right set of diffs. .It Cm e Cm b Start editing file with both sets of diffs. .It Cm q Quit .Nm . .El .It Fl s Skip identical lines. .It Fl w Ar width Print a maximum of .Ar width characters on each line. The default is 130 characters. .El .Pp Options passed to .Xr diff 1 are: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl a Treat .Ar file1 and .Ar file2 as text files. .It Fl b Ignore trailing blank spaces. .It Fl d Minimize diff size. .It Fl I Ar regexp Ignore line changes matching .Ar regexp . All lines in the change must match .Ar regexp for the change to be ignored. .It Fl i Do a case-insensitive comparison. .It Fl t Expand tabs to spaces. .It Fl W Ignore all spaces (the .Fl w flag is passed to .Xr diff 1 ) . .El .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ev EDITOR , VISUAL Specifies an editor to use with the .Fl o option. If both .Ev EDITOR and .Ev VISUAL are set, .Ev VISUAL takes precedence. If neither .Ev EDITOR nor .Ev VISUAL are set, the default is .Xr vi 1 . .It Ev TMPDIR Specifies a directory for temporary files to be created. The default is .Pa /tmp . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cmp 1 , .Xr diff 1 , .Xr diff3 1 , .Xr vi 1 , .Xr re_format 7 .Sh AUTHORS .Nm was written from scratch for the public domain by .An Ray Lai Aq ray@cyth.net . .Sh CAVEATS Although undocumented, .Nm supports all options supported by GNU sdiff. Some options require GNU diff. .Pp Tabs are treated as anywhere from one to eight characters wide, depending on the current column. Terminals that treat tabs as eight characters wide will look best. .Sh BUGS .Nm may not work with binary data.