On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 08:33 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:47:15PM +0900, Mark Sargent wrote: > > thanx Alexander. The below is what I got. Does this mean there are no > > noted differences.? Cheers. > [...] > > [root@localhost php]# diff -a /usr/local/lib/php.ini > > /home/coolboarderguy/downloads/php/php.ini.backup > > [root@localhost php]# > > Yep. I personally find the 'diff -u' format to be the most readable. And if > you're a visual person aided by differences in color, you may want to > install colordiff from Fedora Extras (cdiff in current FE, colordiff in the > development branch). It's a filter for the output of diff that adds in > helpful coloring changed lines appear obviously different. One I've come across recently is xxdiff, a GUI frontend for diff that will show you the two files side by side and highlight the differences. It's not in Extras (yet) but I have an FC3 RPM for it at: http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/sysutils/ It's based on qt so you'll need the qt libraries installed ("yum install qt") if you want to try it. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
