## NAME

sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences

## SYNOPSIS

sdiff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2

## DESCRIPTION

Side-by-side merge of differences between FILE1 and FILE2.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-o, --output=FILE operate interactively, sending output to FILE

-i, --ignore-case consider upper- and lower-case to be the same

-E, --ignore-tab-expansion ignore changes due to tab expansion

-Z, --ignore-trailing-space ignore white space at line end

-b, --ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space

-W, --ignore-all-space ignore all white space

-B, --ignore-blank-lines ignore changes whose lines are all blank

-I, --ignore-matching-lines=RE ignore changes whose lines all match RE

--strip-trailing-cr strip trailing carriage return on input

-a, --text treat all files as text

-w, --width=NUM output at most NUM (default 130) print columns

-l, --left-column output only the left column of common lines

-s, --suppress-common-lines do not output common lines

-t, --expand-tabs expand tabs to spaces in output

--tabsize=NUM tab stops at every NUM (default 8) print columns

-d, --minimal try hard to find a smaller set of changes

-H, --speed-large-files assume large files, many scattered small changes

--diff-program=PROGRAM use PROGRAM to compare files

--help display this help and exit

-v, --version output version information and exit

If a FILE is `-', read standard input. Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.

## AUTHOR

Written by Thomas Lord.

## REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to: bug-diffutils@gnu.org
GNU diffutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

## SEE ALSO

cmp(1), diff(1), diff3(1)

The full documentation for sdiff is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sdiff programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info sdiff

should give you access to the complete manual.