software to compare 2 text files?

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anyone know of any? I’m trying to compare 2 large text files against each other (licence files) to find out the differences between them (one has a switch on that the other doesn’t and going thru hundreds of lines doesn’t sound very appealing)

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u know c++?

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u know c++?

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unfortunitly no

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can’t you do that in access?

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I’ve heard of one. It’s this obscure little program called Microsoft Word.

Tools -> Compare & Merge Documents

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textmate?

SVN?

google? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=diff+two+files&spell=1

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Unix/Linux

diff file1 file2

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heh… never knew that about word.

thanks for the responses

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BBedit can do it as well. I do it all the time for comparing php files for changes.

–mark

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windiff or winmerge

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ultra edit has a nice feature for this.