A diff command with the side by side feature can be added to Solaris systems via the diffutils package (diffutils-2.8.1-sol10-sparc-local.gz).

The diff command can be your best friend when you’re troubleshooting problems on a Unix system, but are you using it effectively as you could?

Grep and diff are command line-based text analysis tools available in all Linux and Unix distributions. Both are designed to parse documents on a line-by-line basis.