Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: JohnF Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: diff -y ??? Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 04:58:09 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 21 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1414904289 3505 166.84.1.3 (2 Nov 2014 04:58:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 04:58:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.0.0-20110823 ("Ardenistiel") (UNIX) (NetBSD/6.1.5 (i386)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:12580 diff -y doesn't seem to be working, or I don't know how to use it. Even diff'ing the same file, diff alone emits nothing, but diff -y emits every line of the file, side-by-side, i.e., bash-4.2$ diff test.txt test.txt bash-4.2$ but bash-4.2$ diff -y -W 60 test.txt test.txt This is a test file This is a test file showing that showing that diff -y doesn't work, diff -y doesn't work, at least not when at least not when I'm using it. I'm using it. bash-4.2$ Same thing happens without the -W (but longer lines), and same thing happens with -yw or any other -switches I tried that include -y. I'm using diff --version diff (GNU diffutils) 3.3 Any way to get that -y to work (or how do you properly use it)? -- John Forkosh ( mailto: j@f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )