colordiff
A wrapper around diff that produces the same output but with pretty syntax highlighting.
Color schemes can be customized.
More information: https://github.com/kimmel/colordiff.
- Compare files:
colordiff file1 file2
- Output in two columns:
colordiff -y file1 file2
- Ignore case differences in file contents:
colordiff -i file1 file2
- Report when two files are the same:
colordiff -s file1 file2
- Ignore whitespace:
colordiff -w file1 file2