Duplicate lines, missing lines, extra lines, etc. are all displayed by diff, and controlled through its options.
For example, unified diff (-u) will show +'s for new lines, and -'s for removed lines. If large chunks of lines are added, removed, or moved, diff will show various sets of +'s and -'s; you can use -d (--minimal) to reduce the changes shown.
The point is, once you've normalized the files you have a wide variety of comparison tools available: straight text from diff; side by side comparison in an editor with vimdiff; byte-by-byte comparison with cmp; sort and uniq to reduce it to some subset; and so on. | [reply] |
