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Wolfy
Asked: 2010-10-14 23:23:30 +0800 CST

Ingore lines with a specific word with diff

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I wonder if diff can ignor differences in lines with a specific word (example: CET).

Example:

9c9
<     <set name="ti_zone">CET</set>
---
>     <set name="time_zone">CET</set>

In this example I would like to ignore this difference...

If can do this, can you give me an example how?

command-line diff

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    diff can do this with the -I option:

    diff -w -I CET file1 file2
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  2. Just pipe the output through grep.

    diff .... | grep -v CET

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