diff

diff compare files line by line

• https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/diff.1.html

Examples

• diff -y file1 file2
• diff -y --suppress-common-lines file1 file2
• diff -y --suppress-common-lines -W 200 file1 file2

• diff /path/to/DIRECTORY1/ /path/to/DIRECTORY2/
• diff -r /path/to/DIRECTORY1/ /path/to/DIRECTORY2/

• diff -y file1.tf file2.bak --suppress-common-lines

Related commands

• docker container diff
• virt-diff
• kubectl diff
• rsnapshot-diff
• git diff
• git diff-tree
• kubectl diff

See also

• ack, ag, grep, egrep, fgrep, agrep, ngrep, pgrep, awk, sed, strings, tr, tail, mtail, git grep, wc, uniq, LogQL, findstr (Windows), rg, git-grep, cut
• diff, icdiff, vimdiff, meld, git diff, git diff-tree, kubectl diff
• file, File system, directory, touch, mkdir, ls, ln truncate, fallocate, split, stat, inode, File descriptor, superblock, block size (blockdev), fuser, lsof, scrub, chattr, ulimit (nofiles), cp, mv, file (command), mkfifo, chmod