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2.TH SDIFF "1" "April 2002" "diffutils 2.8.1" "User Commands"
3.SH NAME
4sdiff \- side-by-side merge of file differences
5.SH SYNOPSIS
6.B sdiff
7[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE1 FILE2\fR
8.SH DESCRIPTION
9Side-by-side merge of file differences.
10.TP
11\fB\-o\fR FILE \fB\-\-output\fR=\fIFILE\fR
12Operate interactively, sending output to FILE.
13.TP
14\fB\-i\fR \fB\-\-ignore\-case\fR
15Consider upper- and lower-case to be the same.
16.TP
17\fB\-E\fR \fB\-\-ignore\-tab\-expansion\fR
18Ignore changes due to tab expansion.
19.TP
20\fB\-b\fR \fB\-\-ignore\-space\-change\fR
21Ignore changes in the amount of white space.
22.TP
23\fB\-W\fR \fB\-\-ignore\-all\-space\fR
24Ignore all white space.
25.TP
26\fB\-B\fR \fB\-\-ignore\-blank\-lines\fR
27Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
28.TP
29\fB\-I\fR RE \fB\-\-ignore\-matching\-lines\fR=\fIRE\fR
30Ignore changes whose lines all match RE.
31.TP
32\fB\-\-strip\-trailing\-cr\fR
33Strip trailing carriage return on input.
34.TP
35\fB\-a\fR \fB\-\-text\fR
36Treat all files as text.
37.TP
38\fB\-w\fR NUM \fB\-\-width\fR=\fINUM\fR
39Output at most NUM (default 130) columns per line.
40.TP
41\fB\-l\fR \fB\-\-left\-column\fR
42Output only the left column of common lines.
43.TP
44\fB\-s\fR \fB\-\-suppress\-common\-lines\fR
45Do not output common lines.
46.TP
47\fB\-t\fR \fB\-\-expand\-tabs\fR
48Expand tabs to spaces in output.
49.TP
50\fB\-d\fR \fB\-\-minimal\fR
51Try hard to find a smaller set of changes.
52.TP
53\fB\-H\fR \fB\-\-speed\-large\-files\fR
54Assume large files and many scattered small changes.
55.TP
56\fB\-\-diff\-program\fR=\fIPROGRAM\fR
57Use PROGRAM to compare files.
58.TP
59\fB\-v\fR \fB\-\-version\fR
60Output version info.
61.TP
62\fB\-\-help\fR
63Output this help.
64.PP
65If a FILE is `-', read standard input.
66.SH AUTHOR
67Written by Thomas Lord.
68.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
69Report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
70.SH COPYRIGHT
71Copyright \(co 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
72.PP
73This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
74You may redistribute copies of this program
75under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
76For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
77.SH "SEE ALSO"
78The full documentation for
79.B sdiff
80is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
81.B info
82and
83.B sdiff
84programs are properly installed at your site, the command
85.IP
86.B info diff
87.PP
88should give you access to the complete manual.
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