Re: How to increase the memory available to diff in cygwin 1.7?

/f1 b/f2 b/foo b/g b/h_dir_in_both b/j b/h_dir_in_both/g1 At this point, it starts to seem easier to do in C++, though I wouldn't be terribly surprised if there was some easier way to do it via shell scripting that I have missed. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote: >

Re: How to increase the memory available to diff in cygwin 1.7?

cmp doesn't recurse, though, at least as far as I can tell. In theory, I could use find, then cmp, plus some scripting, but seems simpler to just write a small C program to do it. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Kenneth Chiu sent the foll

Re: How to increase the memory available to diff in cygwin 1.7?

2009 at 11:41:13AM -0400, Kenneth Chiu wrote: >>I'm trying to diff two large directories, recursively, and >>I'm getting this error: >> >>    $ diff -rq B B2 >diff.out >>    diff: memory exhausted >> >>I looked at this URL >> >>    htt

How to increase the memory available to diff in cygwin 1.7?

I'm trying to diff two large directories, recursively, and I'm getting this error: $ diff -rq B B2 >diff.out diff: memory exhausted I looked at this URL http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html but it seemed out-of-date. There was no such key in the registry, and the optio