Line-end agnostic diff?

Question

I\'m working on a Mac, with some fairly old files. Different files were created by different programs, so some of them end with \\r (Mac) and some with \\n (Unix). I want to

Answer 1

The diff utility bundled with OS X v10.7 (Lion) has an option 'strip-trailing-cr' that does that you want. You use it like so:

diff -cpt a.c b.c --strip-trailing-cr