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Check fstab volumes and volumes mounted.

With this command, you can check the difference between the volumes mounted and the volume in /etc/fstab.
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diff <(cat /etc/fstab | grep vol | grep -v "^#" | awk '{print $1}') <(df -h | grep vol)

Koobiac · 2014-01-23 15:18:08 1
something like 'git log -p' but for svn

from a svn repo, print a log, with diff, of each commit touching a given file
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FILE=somefile.js; LOG=~/changes.diff; truncate -s0 ${LOG}; for change in $(svn log ${FILE} | awk -F' | ' '/^r[0-9]+/{print $1}'); do svn log -c ${change} >> ${LOG}; printf "\n" >> ${LOG}; svn diff -c ${change} >> ${LOG}; printf "\n\n\n" >> ${LOG}; done

hochmeister · 2014-12-23 20:00:54 1
Check Rubocop offenses in your working branch

Assumes you are in the branch you want to run the check on. Sub 'develop' for whatever branch you commonly submit PRs to. Show Sample Output
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```
== spec/support/stripe_endpoint_helpers.rb ==
C:  6: 81: Line is too long. [82/80]
C:163:114: Space inside square brackets detected.
W:231: 25: Unused block argument - value. If it's necessary, use _ or _value as an argument name to indicate that it won't be used.

37 files inspected, 3 offenses detected
```
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git rev-parse develop | xargs git diff --name-only | grep -E '^(app|lib|spec).*\.rb' | xargs rubocop -f simple

vinniefranco · 2015-01-21 08:12:18 0
Compare a remote file with a local file

opens the output of some command as a file so this also works with graphical editors like meld, kdiff3 etc meld <(ssh $remote_site cat .zshrc) .zshrc
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diff <(ssh $remote_site cat $file) $file

hal8 · 2015-05-09 11:11:56 0
Git diff last two commits

A great command to assign to an alias, allowing you to git diff the last two commits in git.
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git diff $(git log --pretty=format:%h -2 --reverse | tr "\n" " ")

caffeinewriter · 2015-07-07 17:50:50 1
Rspec: run specs that were created/changed on my branch only
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git diff --name-only origin/master.. | grep _spec.rb | xargs rspec

valer · 2015-08-06 10:43:31 0
Diff two directories by finding and comparing the md5 checksums of their contents.

As output, checksums and filenames will be printed.
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diff <(sort <(md5deep -r /directory/1/) | awk -F '/' '{print $1 $NF}') <(sort <(md5deep -r /directory/2/) | awk -F '/' '{print $1 $NF}')

linux_noob · 2016-06-06 20:05:01 0
To help sort through differences in .txt files
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diff *txt -u | less

creepyjones · 2016-07-20 17:53:04 0
Diff two directories by finding and comparing the md5 checksums of their contents.

Results will be shown in columns. Only different files and files in one directory that is not in the other will be shown.
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diff -y --suppress-common-lines <(sort -k2 <(md5deep -r -b directory1)) <(sort -k2 <(md5deep -r -b directory2))

MeLoPasoPipa · 2016-08-18 09:17:16 0
Display file names that have common ancestors
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git diff $(git merge-base master HEAD) --name-only

sgur · 2017-01-24 05:39:10 0
Diff 2 branches, for a type of file & having a string in the diff

Diff 2 branches, for a type of file & having a string in the diff
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git diff t1_clone tlocal4 --name-only | grep -i "swift" | xargs git diff t1_clone tlocal4 --word-diff-regex="NSLocalized"

ashish2 · 2017-02-08 11:50:45 0
Copy uncommitted changes to remote git repository

Copy changed files from the remote git repository, _including binary ones_, staged and unstaged alike. Note that this command doesn't handle deleted files properly. The reverse of the excellent command by Ivan.
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git diff --name-only HEAD | cpio -o -Hnewc --quiet | ssh HOST '(cd REPO_DIR && cpio -iduv --quiet -Hnewc)'

vinayakgadkari · 2018-10-28 18:04:00 0
Compare mysql db schema from two different servers
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diff <(mysqldump -hsystem db_name --no-data --routines) <(mysqldump -hsystem2 db_name --no-data --routines) --side-by-side --suppress-common-lines --width=690 | more

shantanuo · 2020-02-09 02:37:05 0
Observing the difference between kernel configs after make config was executed to see if anything was changed from last kernel config (Gentoo)

Alternatively, the kernel provides a script to cleanly compare two config files even if the options have moved in the file itself: /usr/src/linux/scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config
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diff <(sort .config) <(sort .config.old) | awk '/^>.*(=|Linux)/ { $1=""; print }'

wuseman1 · 2022-01-24 16:57:35 0
Describe differences between files

Using sed to print newlines as doing it in one line with diff is non-trivial.
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diff --changed-group-format='differs from line %dF to line %dL|' --unchanged-line-format='' $FILE1 $FILE2 | sed 's/|/\n/'

dullgiulio · 2011-06-02 15:04:36 0
Compare a remote file with a local file

Or, if you have restricted access for sftp only, I think you can still do this: diff /path/to/localfile <(scp user@host:/path/to/remotefile >(cat))
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diff /path/to/localfile <(ssh user@host cat /path/to/remotefile)

mc0e · 2013-05-24 09:24:31 0
create html output from colored, word-level git diff

references: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8818789/git-diff-word-diff-with-oneline-files use aha to output html: http://stackoverflow.com/a/20861333/199217
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git diff --word-diff --color-words | aha > index.html && firefox index.html

dlebauer · 2015-04-20 15:24:56 0
Compare two directory trees.
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diff -qr <dir1> <dir2>

seb1245 · 2012-12-06 07:42:32 1
shows which files differ in two direcories
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diff -qr /dirA /dirB

pdxdoughnut · 2014-04-01 21:42:19 0
Ensure an EOF-newline for every git-tracked text file (that changed since the main branch), except for .meta files

Ignores deleted files since main. dos2unix already skips binary files. Safely NUL-delimited. Add -i for a dry run.
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git diff --diff-filter=ACMRTUX --name-only main -z | grep -zvE '(.meta)' | xargs -0 dos2unix --add-eol

Hype · 2026-06-23 03:50:58 0
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