Meet Meld, an easier to view diff
Do you find it difficult to recognize changes with diff? This can help you! π
Meld is a visual comparison and merger tool for developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories and projects controlled by version.
Installation
Use your distroβs repository, examples:
Usage
Basically it is the same concept as diff
but the command is meld
, example:
For a more detailed example, I created 2 files Shell Script:
cat bye.sh
cat hi.sh
If we use diff bye.sh hi.sh
the output looks like this:
A little difficult to visualize, right ?!
Already with meld bye.sh hi.sh
There are some program options, for example if we go to: File β Format as patch β¦, save only the patch (the changes), see image below:
One more example:
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