title: problem with output of side difference using sdiff in unix
body: <p>I am using the following sdiff command to get the side-by-side difference of two files. Column width is given as one of the options</p>
  
  <p>sdiff -w170 /tmp/captureFile /tmp/referenceFile (or diff -y ) </p>
  
  <p>if i use -w 130 then some characters are stripped. They do not appear in output even on next line. They are lost.</p>
  
  <p>And if -w 170 is used then due to extra characters in the left column, right column is shifted and so few of its characters are seen in the left column part due to screen width being smaller.</p>
  
  <p>So is there any option not to strip off the characters and have then on the next line in the same column of the sdiff command output?</p>