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cdiff - Public Domain cdiff (context diff) program
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_✓D_✓i_✓f_✓f compares two files, showing what must be changed to
make them identical. Either file1 or file2 (but not both)
may refer to directories. If that is the case, a file in the
directory whose name is the same as the other file argument
will be used. The standard input may be used for one of the
files by replacing the argument by "-". Except for the
standard input, both files must be on disk devices.
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-✓-✓-✓-b✓b✓b✓b Remove trailing whitespace (blanks and tabs) and compress
all other strings of whitespace to a single blank.
-✓-✓-✓-c✓c✓c✓c Print some context -- matching lines before and after the
non-match section. Mark non-matched sections with "|".
-✓-✓-✓-i✓i✓i✓i Ignore lower/upper case distinctions.
-✓-✓-✓-e✓e✓e✓e Output is in an "editor script" format which is
compatible with the Unix 'ed' editor.
All information needed to compare the files is maintained in
main memory. This means that very large files (or fairly
large files with many differences) will cause the program to
abort with an "out of space" message. Main memory
requirements (in words) are approximately:
2 * (length of file1 + length of file2)
+ 3 * (number of changes)
(Where "length" is the number of lines of data in each
file.)
The algorithm reads each file twice, once to build hash
tables and once to check for fortuitous matches (two lines
that are in fact different, but which have the same hash
value). CPU time requirements include sorting the hash
tables and randomly searching memory tables for equivalence
classes. For example, on a time-shared VAX-11/780, comparing
two 1000 line files required about 30 seconds (elapsed clock
time) and about 10,000 bytes of working storage. About 90
per-cent of the time was taken up by file I/O.
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Warning, bad option 'x'
The option is ignored.
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Usage ...
Two input files were not specified.
Can't open input file "filename".
Can't continue.
Out of space
The program ran out of memory while comparing the two
files.
Can't read line nnn at xxx in file[A/B]
This indicates an I/O error when seeking to the
specific line. It should not happen.
Spurious match, output is not optimal.
Two lines that were different yielded the same hash
value. This is harmless except that the difference
output is not the minimum set of differences between
the two files. For example, instead of the output:
lines 1 to 5 were changed to ...
the program will print
lines 1 to 3 were changed to ...
lines 4 to 5 were changed to ...
The program uses a CRC16 hash code.
The likelihood of this error is quite small.
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The diff algorithm was developed by J. W. Hunt and M. D.
McIlroy, using a central algorithm defined by H. S. Stone.
It was published in:
Hunt, J. W., and McIlroy, M. D.,
An Algorithm for Differential File Comparison,
Computing Science Technical Report #41,
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
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On RSX and DECUS C on VMS systems, diff may fail if the both
files are not "variable-length, implied carriage control"
format. The scopy program can be used to convert files to
this format if problems arise.
When compiled under VAX C, diff handles STREAM_LF files
properly (in addition to the canonical variable-length
implied carriage control files). Other variations should
work, but have not been tested.
When compiled under VAX C, diff is quite slow for unknown
reasons which ought to be investigated. On the other hand,
it has access to effectively unlimited memory.
Output in a form suitable for ed - the -e option - seems
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rather pointless; the analogue on DEC systems is SLP (SUMSLP
on VMS). It would be simple to provide SLP-compatible
output. The question is, why bother - since the various DEC
file comparisonFound 424 control chars in "diff.doc"
utilities already produce it.
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