Add the specific sed statement to recover the second output file to

the comments.
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Guido van Rossum 1998-05-08 21:04:06 +00:00
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# ndiff file1 file2 -- a human-friendly file differencer.
# $Revision$
# $NoKeywords: $
# SequenceMatcher tries to compute a "human-friendly diff" between
# two sequences (chiefly picturing a file as a sequence of lines,
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# 3) Lines beginning with "? " attempt to guide the eye to intraline
# differences, and were not present in either input file.
#
# COROLLARY:
# On Unix, the second file can be recovered by piping the output through
# sed -n '/^[+ ] /s/^..//p'
# Modifications to recover the first file are left as an exercise for
# the reader.
#
# NOTE on junk: the module-level names
# IS_LINE_JUNK
# IS_CHARACTER_JUNK