[TAG] 2 Cent Tip: Tell diff to ignore whitespaces

[Suramya Tomar]

Remembered this while reading the emails going back and forth between 
Peter and Ben about diff'ing files.

To tell diff to ignore white spaces and do a case-insensitive comparison 
use the following command:

diff -ibw FirstFile SecondFile

Where

  -b    Ignores trailing blanks (spaces and tabs) and treats
        other strings of blanks as equivalent.

  -i    Ignores the case of letters

  -w    Ignores all blanks  (SPACE  and  TAB  characters)  and
        treats  all other strings of blanks as equivalent; for
        example,  `if ( a == b )'  will   compare   equal   to
        `if(a==b)'.

Hope this helps.

- Suramya


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