Re: (visual) diff for large files
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:21 -0500, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote:
> 2008/5/1 michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>:
> > At work we've been discussing (below) 'diff' running out of memory. I've
> > tried to see if 'rdiff' can help (but no idea how to back out the
> > differences from the "delta" o/p file). I've seen that freeBSD has a
> > diff utility (eg 2bsd-diff) that does NOT read in all of the files in
> > one go and thus has less problems with 'memory exhausted' but I cannot
> > find a Debian equivalent. Therefore,
> >
> > does anybody know of a freeBSD->Debian ports site?
> >
> > I did try downloading the 2.11bsd-diff source but it doesn't build on my
> > system (unsurprisingly!)
>
> Hello,
>
> >From where have you downloaded the source of the bsd-diff ? I am
> searching for it, just to try to compile it. Which are the errors you
> get ?
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/textproc/2bsd-diff
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