Comparing and Merging Files
9.1 Specifying diff Options to sdiff
The following sdiff options have the same meaning as for
diff. See section 13.1 Options to diff, for the use of these options.
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-B -E -I regexp
--ignore-blank-lines --ignore-case
--ignore-matching-lines=regexp --ignore-space-change
--ignore-tab-expansion
--left-column --minimal --speed-large-files
--strip-trailing-cr --suppress-common-lines --expand-tabs
--text --version --width=columns
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For historical reasons, sdiff has alternate names for some
options. The `-l' option is equivalent to the
`--left-column' option, and similarly `-s' is equivalent
to `--suppress-common-lines'. The meaning of the sdiff
`-w' and `-W' options is interchanged from that of
diff: with sdiff, `-w columns' is
equivalent to `--width=columns', and `-W' is
equivalent to `--ignore-all-space'. sdiff without the
`-o' option is equivalent to diff with the `-y'
or `--side-by-side' option (see section 2.4 Showing Differences Side by Side).
