How to display line numbers in side by side diff in unix?

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nomazoma49 picture nomazoma49 · Aug 15, 2016 · Viewed 38.8k times · Source

The scenario is that i have 2 files which i want to diff side by side using the following command with the line numbers:

diff -y file1.txt file2.txt

and

sdiff file1.txt file2.txt

The above command just prints the side by side diff but doesn't display the line numbers. Is there any way to do it ? I searched a lot but couldn't find any solutions. I can't use third party tools FYI. Any genius ideas from anyone ?

Update:

I want the file numbers present of the file itself and not the line numbers generated by piping to cat -n etc.. Lets say, i am doing diff using "--suppress-common-l‌​ines" then the line numbers should be omitted which are not shown in the diff.

Answer

Utsav picture Utsav · Aug 16, 2016

Below code can be used display uncommon fields in two files, side by side.

sdiff -l file1 file2 | cat -n | grep -v -e '($'

Below code will display common fields along with line numbers in the output.

diff -y file1 file2 | cat -n | grep -v -e '($'

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