Saturday, February 20, 2016

[dforamht] Byte diff as lines

Compute the difference of two files, comparing by bytes instead of lines as done with the diff utility.  Present consecutive and nearly consecutive differing bytes (chunks) organized into lines.  Perhaps encoded into hexadecimal if it is a binary file, or both raw and hex as the od or hd utilities do.  Each chunk header gives the byte offsets.

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