tldr/pages/common/colordiff.md

colordiff

A tool to colorize diff diff output. The Perl script colordiff is a wrapper for diff and produces the same output but with pretty syntax highlighting. Colour schemes can be customized. More information: https://github.com/kimmel/colordiff.

• Compare files:

colordiff {{file-1}} {{file-2}}

• Compare files, output in two columns:

colordiff -y {{file-1}} {{file-2}}

• Compare files, Ignore case differences in file contents:

colordiff -i {{file-1}} {{file-2}}

• Compare files, Report when two files are the same:

colordiff -s {{file-1}} {{file-2}}

• Compare files, ignoring white spaces:

colordiff -w {{old_file}} {{new_file}}