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Short for "difference" or "differencing", in computing, "diff" refers to a data comparison that calculates and displays the differences between two objects (usually files or directories).

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Diff tool which I can force certain lines to match

I have files that I want to compare, and I would need to have a way to force lines to match for the algorithm to pick the block to compare correctly. For example: FILE1 test1 subline1 subline2 subline3 test2 subline1 subline2 …
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Log Backup required even if we take Full + Differential File backup?

Here is what I am doing, Take full FILE backup at 1.00 AM Take differential FILE backup every 15 minutes And we ftp all data to other location and restore everything there So now from My Source database to Destination database, every 15 minutes,…
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subversion directory structure diff between revisions

I can't seem to find a way to use Subversion to take a diff of directory structure changes between two revisions. I'd like to see what files/directories/symlinks have been added/deleted between two revisions. svn diff only seems to show me contents.…
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Import VMs with differencing VHD into Hyper-V 2012

I've recently installed Windows Server 2012 to my test server to run Hyper-V test environment. I have bunch of old VMs which were created in Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V which I didn't export in advance - I just have all VMs files created on old…
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Find and group all unique versions of a file

I have a convoluted directory structure where there are many copies of foo.txt. I'd like to find all copies of this file and group them by their diff result, i.e. [type 1] /bar2/sub1/foo.txt /foobar/foo.txt [type…
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Find mysql replications diffs patterns

I'm using pt-table-checksum and pt-table-sync to check for differences in my replicas. when I use pt-table-sync with the -print option, I can only see the master values. How can I show the conflicting slave values as well? I want to see if I can…
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looking for a tricky one liner to get diff of awk output

Lets say i have two files like below: file1 a 23 b 34 c 47 file2 a justin_beiber_sucks b segmentation fault c jackson d nop Now what i want is to get a diff of the first column of two file. I'm doing it now like $cat file1 awk '{print $1}'>…
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Is it possible to configure cloud without virtualization?

I have learned that cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage services and virtualization is mandatory for cloud computing. I have also found in some places that there are some differences between cloud computing and…
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Interactive two panels diff for *nix console?

Could you please advise me about interactive two panels diff tool, something like http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/, but for *nix console/ncurses or maybe somebody knows how DiffMerge can be run over SSH connection seamlessly?
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Diff for a locally modified package in Ubuntu

If I modify the source code of some package that I've installed with apt-get in Ubuntu, is there some package tool that will let me see the diff between what was the original installation and my modifications?
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Some copied files have additional blank lines

In the process of comparing files between 2 versions of an application i've noticed that a number of files seem to have gained additional blank lines throughout the file. These files were never uploaded by FTP, purely copied from one location to…
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diff folders and copy results over

We use a third party newsletter system which updates frequently, usually around 100 files. Each time all the developers release is the whole application again with a changelog but there's usually too many files listed for it to be useful. The system…
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What are the differences between a server and regular edition of windows?

Possible Duplicate: How is Windows Server different from regular Windows? What are the differences between a server edition of windows (such as Windows Server 2008) and a regular version of windows (Like windows 7 ultimate, with the windows…
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VirtualBox Differencing Disk Sizes

I've recently started trying to use VirtualBox for my new machine so I can prevent the base OS from any artifacts/etc. I've created a Base OS and removed the drive, marked it as immutable, and created another for development, attached that drive,…
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finding a group of string common in two files

I have used diff command in past.I faced a situation to which I did not had a clue here are some text strings (which can be stored in a…
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