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how to run recursively diff command for comparing files of file size more than 2GB in solaris?

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What do you want to do recursively ? – Iain♦ Dec 4 '10 at 19:58
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In Solaris diff is largefile safe but not largefile aware so it can't handle files >2Gb. Solaris has the bdiff command that may help you.

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You can also just use GNU diff, which is already installed as gdiff on many Solaris systems. – alanc Dec 4 '10 at 21:36
@alanc: OpenSolaris has gdiff but I don't think Solaris does by default. – Iain♦ Dec 4 '10 at 22:06
GNU diff does come on the Solaris 10 companion disk. It's under /opt/sfw/bin/gdiff which may not be in your search path. – JOTN Dec 8 '10 at 1:43
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