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By Abhishek Ghosh September 14, 2015 1:32 am Updated on September 14, 2015

Colorful diff on Command Line : OS X & GNU/Linux

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diff is used to show the changes between two versions of the same file. Colorful diff on Command Line is Great to Read & There is Easy Way. man diff will bring the default diff utility’s manual page. We can use this tool, but there is an existing easy way. First we will talk about the ways which many like to use, next we will talk about the easy way we like.

First, for this guide, create two files – file1.txt and file2.txt and fill up with a bit different versions of content on the files. Normal usage will be :

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diff file1.txt file2.txt

Adding flags will make them better :

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diff -c file1.txt file2.txt
diff -u file1.txt file2.txt
diff -e file1.txt file2.txt

Definitely, we can pipe to text file :

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diff -e file1.txt file2.txt > my-ed-script.txt

And last but not the least for plain diff, these are two versions of a code as gist for our Arduino breathing LED :

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https://gist.githubusercontent.com/AbhishekGhosh/dbedaf3d14f3b513b24c/raw/c2f59b93d00c0728e04f1f082aceea3697929043/Breathing-LED-Arduino.cc
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/AbhishekGhosh/dbedaf3d14f3b513b24c/raw/6935a09e8b709881d0574dad18be22c00a5e54c5/Breathing-LED-Arduino.cc

We can compare them using this format :

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diff <(curl http://example.com/file/one.js) <(curl http://example.com/file/two.js)

Live example :

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git diff <(curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/AbhishekGhosh/dbedaf3d14f3b513b24c/raw/c2f59b93d00c0728e04f1f082aceea3697929043/Breathing-LED-Arduino.cc) <(curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/AbhishekGhosh/dbedaf3d14f3b513b24c/raw/6935a09e8b709881d0574dad18be22c00a5e54c5/Breathing-LED-Arduino.cc)

 

Colorful diff on Command Line : Known Ways

 

colordiff is another program, which we can install using :

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# deb GNU/Linux
sudo apt-get install colordiff
# OS X
brew install colordiff

We need to use unix pipe to use this tool. For example :

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diff file1.txt file2.txt | colordiff

Another way is using vi :

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diff file1.txt file2.txt | vim -R -

 

Colorful diff on Command Line : Our Way, Best Way

 

All of us have git installed, it is quite common on a server to have git installed. This is less known but quite robust feature to use git dif to get colorful diff on command line :

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git diff file1.txt file2.txt

it is, indeed quite neat :

Colorful diff on Command Line OS X & GNU:Linux

Most funny, we have a manual too :

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man git diff

Some commands with flags for your ready-made tests :

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git diff --no-color feed.xml test.xml
git diff --histogram feed.xml test.xml
git diff --raw feed.xml test.xml
git diff --minimal feed.xml test.xml

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Colorful diff on Command Line : OS X & GNU/Linux," in The Customize Windows, September 14, 2015, February 1, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2015/09/colorful-diff-on-command-line-os-x-gnulinux/.

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