#!/bin/bash pname="$(basename "$0")" if [ $# -ne 2 ] ; then printf '%s usage:\n' "$pname" printf '\t%s $file1 $file2\n' "$pname" exit 1 fi left="$1" right="$2" preleft="/tmp/$$-left-$(basename "$left")" preright="/tmp/$$-right-$(basename "$right")" function preprocess(){ local input="$1" local output="$2" tr '\012' ' ' < "$input" \ | sed \ -e 's/[\t ]\+/ /g' \ -e 's/\([;{}]\)/\1\n/g' > "$output" } preprocess "$left" "$preleft" preprocess "$right" "$preright" diff -Naurtwb "$preleft" "$preright" #### THE END ####