On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 davidson wrote: [trim]
icdiff will not do that. icdiff is faithful to its sources. I have
determined this by trying it out a little myself, and by examining the
command line options documented in its manual page ("man icdiff").
You could give it different sources:
$ icdiff <( tr '\n' ' ' <file1 ) <( tr '\n' ' ' <file2 )
You can define a function to do the same thing, to save some typing at
future invocations,
Typos ahead:
$ icdiff-flowed () { <( tr '\n' ' ' <file1 ) <( tr '\n' ' ' <file2 ) ; }
Correction:
$ icdiff-flowed () { <( tr '\n' ' ' <"$1" ) <( tr '\n' ' ' <"$2" ) ; }
and then use it like so $ icdiff-flowed file1 file2 | less -R
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