Re: Question

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden writes:

> I am diffing the two files line by line and two lines are the same.  So 
> why am I seeing a pipe ("|") in between them?  What does the pipe 
> signifies?

It signifies that the two lines are different.

Try using "diff -u" on the same pair of files: it won't truncate the
lines the same way that "diff -y" will, and that might explain your
problem.  If it looks the same anyway, perhaps it's trailing white
space on one line, or something like that.

>  I look into help, but it didn't explain what it was!

Does the following example help explain things?

http://www.gnu.org/manual/diffutils/html_node/Example-Side-by-Side.html#Example%20Side%20by%20Side

If not, what is missing from the explanation?