diff on Linux is a very handy tool. Any good diff alternatives on Windows to find differences between 2 files? A GUI program will be better on Windows. I would recommend meld for Windows users. Meld is a visual diff and merge tool open source software. meld is available on Linux, Windows and Mac OS […]
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How to do diff like `git diff –word-diff` without git on Linux?
The result of git by git diff –word-diff is great. But how to do diff like git diff –word-diff without git on Linux? The plain diff command on Linux seems not accept options like –word-diff. The wdiff is for word-diff: wdiff program is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per […]
How to make “tree” output consistent on Linux
I tried tree on different Linux boxes to verify the files by diff. However, I found the format can be a little bit different on different nodes. For examples, the tree result could be . |– test2 | |– test4 | `– test5 `– test3 1 directory, 3 files or . ├── test2 │ ├── […]
Git diff with long lines
I find git diff output is not easy to read when the text file contains long lines that is long enough to exceeds the screen size. We may not forbid the using the long lines for all files. How to handle lone lines in git diff better? Two possible methods to make git diff with […]
How to Generate and Apply Patches using diff and patch on Linux
diff and patch are tools to create patches and apply patches to source code, which is widely used in the open-source world, such as Linux kernel and application. patch: applying patches To apply a patch to a single file: $ patch < foo.patch If the foo.patch does not identify the file the patch should be […]