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Sandy Harris wrote:
>
> A Unix utility called diff does that, for text files. Absolutely standard,
> part of Unix for over 20 years. Included in every Linux distribution, or
> FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD.
Let me mention diff3, too. This nifty little command will compare
two modified versions of a file against the original, and then
combine the modified versions into one file. It's mostly used for
programming, but I don't think I need to belabour the joy of the
command for writing, too.
The only drawback is if you get the files you're working with
confused.
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