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adds quick side-by-side example
diff -rq -x .svn ./work/myproject/ ./work/myproject-copy2/
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=== Piping ===
The <code>diff</code> command is fast, but often the output is hard to read to find the exact difference. You might try piping the output of the diff command to a graphical tool:
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By using the dash option to kdiff3, you're telling it to read from STDIN, so it uses the output of the former commands being piped to it.
Or, piping to <code>awk</code> to print a list of just what's in the 'left side'.
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diff --suppress-common-lines --side-by-side modules.list.a.txt modules.list.b.txt |awk '{print $1}'
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=== Compressed files ===