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How to make diff ignore line feeds

 
Renda Skandier
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‎03-23-2005 08:41 AM

‎03-23-2005 08:41 AM

How to make diff ignore line feeds

Hi,
I'm trying to use the diff command to compare 2 reports. One has an extra line feed between lines that I don't care about.
I tried diff -w but it didn't help.
I wrote a quick program to see what was at the end of the line and there is always a [00][0A]

Any ideas on how to exclude these?
thanks Renda
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RAC_1
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‎03-23-2005 08:47 AM

‎03-23-2005 08:47 AM

Re: How to make diff ignore line feeds

Use tr to delete the extra line feed and then do compare.
There is no substitute to HARDWORK
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Amit Agarwal_1
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‎03-23-2005 03:41 PM

‎03-23-2005 03:41 PM

Re: How to make diff ignore line feeds

diff do not support ignoring of the blank lines.

As RAC suggested, the alternative is to create a temp files with 'extra newlines' removed and then do the compare.

I couldn't find any other command either doing the job in one shot.
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