Comments on: 10 Best File Comparison and Difference (Diff) Tools for Linux

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 03:56:12 +0000

In reply to david. @David, You are correct, and I apologize for not mentioning sdiff in article. sdiff is a command-line tool available in many Linux distributions, including Fedora and RHEL, and it is used to display two files side-by-side, highlighting the differences between them.

By: david

david — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 19:37:08 +0000

You didn't mention sdiff, which is installed by default, at least in Fedora/RHEL that displays both files side-by-side. I use sdiff extensively. It has an option -w n to select the column width for display. That's really the only option I need.

$ sdiff [-w n] file1 file2

By: VISSERS

VISSERS — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 08:07:29 +0000

I wanted to say that I advise you not to waste your time with text diff. A human has difficulties understanding the diff between a text diff.

I have just tried kompare file1.txt file2.txt and it does a good job to show you the diff.

By: Chris Koknat

Chris Koknat — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:35:06 +0000

I’ve created a free Linux tool to compare files while ignoring differences in whitespace.

It has many other options for ignoring comments or timestamps, sorting the input files, doing search/replace, ignoring certain lines, etc.

After preprocessing the input files, it runs the Linux tools meld, gvimdiff, tkdiff, or kompare on these intermediate files.

To download it from Github:

https://github.com/koknat/dif
Click on the green “code” button to download the script
Installation is not required, just run the ‘dif’ executable
./dif file1 file2

By: R

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:09:53 +0000

Thanks! (Xubuntu > All applications > Software > (Search for) Meld.