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

I used the following quick fix, which has drawbacks (see below):

1: Do a diff and list only the filenames

diff -r -q dir1/ dir2/

2: Open and save every listed file with the editor that was used, this will change the line-endings.

3: Do a regular diff

Drawbacks include:

• less robust, error prone
• more work if you have lots of files