A diff command with the side by side feature can be added to Solaris systems via the diffutils package (diffutils-2.8.1-sol10-sparc-local.gz).

The diff command can be your best friend when you’re troubleshooting problems on a Unix system, but are you using it effectively as you could?

Grep and diff are command line-based text analysis tools available in all Linux and Unix distributions. Both are designed to parse documents on a line-by-line basis.

We do this with the help of the three commands SSH, cat and diff, all of which should be installed on your Linux and macOS machines by default. Let me show you how it’s done.

Grep and diff are command line-based text analysis tools available in all Linux and Unix distributions. Both are designed to parse documents on a line-by-line basis.