[ale] diff being boneheaded

[Jim Kinney]

possibly. I've run dos2unix on the files from the winders side. Vim no
longer says [converted] when I do that test.


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:53 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could there be Mac or Dos type line endings that are not showing up on
> your screen?
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> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've got 2 text files  > 6M lines each. Each file is sorted in dictionary
>> order. diff is flagging identical lines between them as different but not
>> all lines.
>>
>> I look at the output and can see no reason why they are flagged except
>> for maybe one line is too far away from the same line in the other file.
>>
>> There is some crap from a mac backup list that was in a different
>> codepage but I think I've fixed that.
>>
>> Ideas on how to tell diff to ignore the line count between lines?
>> Basically all I want is a fast "these lines are not in the other file" for
>> both files.
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James P. Kinney III
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*Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
*
http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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