file compare tool?
Richard England
rlengland at verizon.net
Sun Mar 2 07:52:09 UTC 2008
Don Russell wrote:
> I am looking for a tool I can use to compare two files, and show me
> the differences in a side-by-side view. Ideally, I'd like a view like
> SVN does via the httpd interface... i.e. one side has removed code
> shown in a red/pink background, the other side shows new code in green...
>
> It would be perfect if I could use it is a command line tool, and then
> it would display the results in an X window (based on the DISPLAY env
> setting...
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks very much,
> Don
>
>
> --
> There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand
> binary, and those who don't. :-)
vim, which is the vi implemented by default in Fedora, can do this
using the -d (for diff) switch.
vim -d file1 file2 which will use the current window, curses style
or
gvim -d file1 file2 which will open it's own X based application
window.
~~R
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