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Diff Tools

dirdiff – compute the differences between two directories

December 12, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirdiff efficiently computes the differences between two directories. It’s written in Rust.

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Diff Tools

diff2html-cli – generate HTML diffs

December 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diff2html generates pretty HTML diffs from unified and git diff output in your terminal.

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Diff Tools

dyff – diff tool for YAML files

December 7, 2024 Steve Emms CLI

dyff is a diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON.

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dwdiff – diff program that operates at the word level

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dwdiff is a diff program that operates at the word level instead of the line level.

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Wdiff – wordwise implementation of diff

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Software

wdiff is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis. A word is anything between whitespace.

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ydiff – colored incremental side-by-side diff viewer

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ydiff is a view colored, incremental diff in a workspace or from stdin, with side by side and auto pager support.

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diffr – word-by-word diff highlighting utility

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diffr processes diffs and outputs them (in the console) with additional diff information on top of the unified diff format.

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colordiff – wrapper for diff with pretty syntax highlighting

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordiff is a wrapper for diff and produces the same output as diff but with coloured syntax highlighting at the command line.

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diffoscope – in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diffoscope is a utility that offers in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories.

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icdiff – improved colored diff

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

icdiff can show you the differences between similar files without getting in the way.

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Diff Tools

delta – viewer for git and diff output

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Delta is a viewer for git and diff output. The program allows you to make extensive changes to the layout and styling of diffs.

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Diff Tools

diff-so-fancy – attractive diffs with diff-highlight and more

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diff-so-fancy strives to make your diffs human readable instead of machine readable. diff-so-fancy is free and open source software.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

Meld – visual diff and merge tool

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Meld is a graphical diff viewer and merge application for the Gnome desktop. It supports 2 and 3-file diffs, recursive directory diffs.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

Kompare – graphical difference viewer

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Kompare is an open source GUI front-end program that enables differences between source files to be viewed and merged.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

TkDiff – graphical front end to diff

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

TkDiff is a graphical front end to the diff program. It’s written in the Tcl programming language and under active development.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

Diffuse – merge tool written in Python

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is implemented in Python and runs on platforms with PyGTK.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

KDiff3 – graphical text difference analyzer

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KDiff3 is a graphical text difference analyzer for up to 3 input files, provides character-by-character analysis and a text merge tool.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

DiffPDF – compare two PDF files

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

DiffPDF is a GUI tool that’s used to compare two PDF files. This program is written in C++ and is free and open source.

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xxdiff – graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

xxdiff is a free and open source graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool. Compare two files, three files, or two directories.

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Diff Tools

difftastic – structural diff tool that compares files based on their syntax

June 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. It uses tree-sitter to build a parse tree.

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