diff.md

Diff

There are several ways to run diffs in Bash

diff # standard diff
vimdiff # side-by-side diff in vim

Sorting before diff

Using sort allows us to sort the lines to ensure that the diff takes all of the content into account

diff <(sort file1) <(sort file2)

Source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23303/diff-where-lines-are-mostly-the-same-but-out-of-order?newreg=bb4c53c3b14f44f18c189f1d8136af28