Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:56:17 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fast diff command for large files? Message-ID: <200511040956.19087.kirk@strauser.com>
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I need to routinely find the diffs between two multigigabyte text files (exporting a set of FoxPro tables to a PostgreSQL database without doing a complete dump/reload each time, in case you were wondering). GNU diff from the base system and from ports chokes. The textproc/2bsd-diff works OK, but is glacially slow. I'm basically looking for something that generates easily-parseable text. Since this is a young project, I don't particularly care if the output format is different from diff's. Any suggestions? -- Kirk Strauser
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