Man1 - sdiff.1

sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences

sdiff [/OPTION/]… FILE1 FILE2

Side-by-side merge of differences between FILE1 and FILE2.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-o, *–output*=/FILE/

operate interactively, sending output to FILE

-i, –ignore-case

consider upper- and lower-case to be the same

-E, –ignore-tab-expansion

ignore changes due to tab expansion

-Z, –ignore-trailing-space

ignore white space at line end

-b, –ignore-space-change

ignore changes in the amount of white space

-W, –ignore-all-space

ignore all white space

-B, –ignore-blank-lines

ignore changes whose lines are all blank

-I, *–ignore-matching-lines*=/RE/

ignore changes all whose lines match RE

–strip-trailing-cr

strip trailing carriage return on input

-a, –text

treat all files as text

-w, *–width*=/NUM/

output at most NUM (default 130) print columns

-l, –left-column

output only the left column of common lines

-s, –suppress-common-lines

do not output common lines

-t, –expand-tabs

expand tabs to spaces in output

*–tabsize*=/NUM/

tab stops at every NUM (default 8) print columns

-d, –minimal

try hard to find a smaller set of changes

-H, –speed-large-files

assume large files, many scattered small changes

*–diff-program*=/PROGRAM/

use PROGRAM to compare files

–help

display this help and exit

-v, –version

output version information and exit

If a FILE is ’-’, read standard input. Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.

Written by Thomas Lord.

Report bugs to: bug-diffutils@gnu.org
GNU diffutils home page: https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/
General help using GNU software: https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/

Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

cmp(1), diff(1), diff3(1)

The full documentation for sdiff is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sdiff programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info sdiff

should give you access to the complete manual.