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How can I create a patch to delete a folder and create new folder using diff?

For example I have two directories say old and new. The directory old has a sub-directory abc and the directory new has a sub-directory cde. I tried creating patch by using I got following output in file.patch: and when I tried to patch the file I got following error: When I try to create patch by using: I get empty

How do I do a one way diff in Linux?

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How do I do a one way diff in Linux? Normal behavior of diff: Normally, diff will tell you all the differences between a two files. For example, it will tell you anything that is in file A that is not in file B, and will also tell you everything that is in file B, but not in file A.

Find the files existing in one directory but not in the other [closed]

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Linux C or C++ library to diff and patch strings? [closed]

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How to display only different rows using diff (bash)

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How can I display only different rows using diff in a separate file? For example, the file number 1 contains the line: A file number 2 contains the following lines: How to make in the following happen? Answer a.txt: b.txt: Use comm: The command line options to comm are pretty straight-forward: -1 suppress column 1 (lines unique to FILE1) -2

Given two directory trees, how can I find out which files differ by content? [closed]

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How to tell binary from text files in linux

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The linux file command does a very good job in recognising file types and gives very fine-grained results. The diff tool is able to tell binary files from text files, producing a different output. Is there a way to tell binary files form text files? All I want is a yes/no answer whether a given file is binary. Because it’s

how can I diff two sections of the same file?

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I have a source file with two similar yet subtly different sections. I’d like to merge the two sections into one subroutine with a parameter that handles the subtle differences, but I need to be sure I’m aware of them all so I don’t miss any. What I usually do in such cases is copy each of the sections to