[Gllug] Command-line tools for comparing lists

[Fred L Youhanaie]

Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> If it makes things any better, so am I. I'm trying to compare two users'
> registry settings to find why one of them can run our awful case
> management software, and one can't...

In that case if the two files have similar formats, you may want to try 
sdiff, the side by side diff, e.g. assuming your xterm is 140 chars wide:

	sdiff -w140 file1 file2 | more

Cheers
f.
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