Visually Compare File Program

GNewbie · 05-14-2006, 12:03 PM

hi all,

i'm looking for a program that will allow me to load two files and visually compare them. differences are highlighted for easy recognition.

if that doesn't exist, i'd like aprogram that will tell me what lines are different.

i have two scripts that should be the same, but yield different results when processed - so something is different.

i'd like to find out what is different w/o going line by line.

tia...

reddazz · 05-14-2006, 12:07 PM

Use the diff command. If you need a gui, you can install kdiff.

meng · 05-14-2006, 12:09 PM

diff should do it.
http://maconlinux.net/linux-man-pages/en/diff.1.html

If by visually, you mean in the GUI, then I'm not sure. But give diff a try!

meng · 05-14-2006, 12:09 PM

Ah shoot too slow.

mrcheeks · 05-14-2006, 02:37 PM

Many diff front-ends
http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/links.html

Valdis Grinbergs · 05-14-2006, 05:53 PM

There are several good diff programs. I recommend vimdiff. If you have vim, try from the bash prompt: vimdiff file1 file2
It highlights lines in one file not in the other and highlights lines that differ. Highlights are in different colors. Copying one or more lines from one file to the other is easy with [range]diffget or [range]diffput. To learn more, open vim and type :help vimdiff