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Revision as of 19:14, 24 February 2017
To diff the outputs of two command outputs, such as two ls's, run:
diff <(cd directory1; ls) <(cd directory2; ls)
This is assuming you are using bash, or a shell that can handle sub shells and pipes similar to bash such as zsh.