diff command for comparing files more than 2GB in solaris?

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how to run recursively diff command for comparing files of file size more than 2GB in solaris?

What do you want to do recursively ? – user9517 Dec 04 '10 at 19:58 — user9517, Dec 04 '10 at 19:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 02 '12 at 16:03

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In Solaris diff is largefile safe but not largefile aware so it can't handle files >2Gb. Solaris has the bdiff command that may help you.

edited Sep 02 '12 at 16:03

alanc

answered Dec 04 '10 at 19:57

user9517

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You can also just use GNU diff, which is already installed as gdiff on many Solaris systems. – alanc Dec 04 '10 at 21:36
@alanc: OpenSolaris has gdiff but I don't think Solaris does by default. – user9517 Dec 04 '10 at 22:06
GNU diff does come on the Solaris 10 companion disk. It's under /opt/sfw/bin/gdiff which may not be in your search path. – JOTN Dec 08 '10 at 01:43

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