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Asked: 2026-05-16T11:12:08+00:00

Hello I am trying to get the difference between to text files. There are

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Hello I am trying to get the difference between to text files. There are a lot of differences and viewing them in terminal is making it volatile since I cannot save them. I want to view and save the diff. How would I catch the output and print it to a text file??

Code I am using for getting the diff is diff -i -w -B file1.txt file2.txt

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    Save to text file:

    diff -i -w -B file1.txt file2.txt > diff.txt

    Write directly to printer:

    diff -i -w -B file1.txt file2.txt | lpr

    Write saved text file to printer

    lpr diff.txt

    ‘Hope that helps .. PSM

    PS:
    Here’s a link on Linux command-line printing:

    http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-Usage-HOWTO-2.html

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