Problem in sdiff command.

[unirams]

Hi Everyone,
I had strange result when i ran sdiff command as below.

Actually i have 2 files, in which file1 has the following content.
X
Y
Z

In File2, i have added one big line in between X and Y as below.

X
TAP_SUB_TRAN_TYP 2 #SubResp 52-pendingE/O, 55-nonpending E/O, 56-nonpending MF, 59-pending MF
Y
Z

When i run sdiff like,
sdiff -l -w 198 File1 File2, my output will be,

X
> TAP_SUB_TRAN_TYP
2 #SubResp 52-pendingE/O, 55-nonpending E/O, 56-nonpen
Y
Z

Listen, in 2nd line some text is missed.

So, in sdiff, i increased, 250 with -w option, now sdiff results with some junk char in front of the newlint started with TAP_SUB_TRAN_TYPE. Please advice me, how i will solve this problem to get the exact line as it is.

Thanks in advance,
Ram

 

[jamisar]

i dont like (s)?diff, my be you can solve the problem using 'comm' ------------ jamisar
Einfachheit ist das Resultat der Reife. (Friedrich Schiller)
Simplicity is the fruit of maturity.

 

[jamisar]

sdiff -l -w 250 file1 file2 |od -c
you will find NULL-characters and chars < '\n' , no idea why, this often appens i 'c' if you write over the buffer-limit. ------------ jamisar
Einfachheit ist das Resultat der Reife. (Friedrich Schiller)
Simplicity is the fruit of maturity.

 

[unirams]

Any other idea????

Thanks,
Ram