COLORDIFF(1) | User Commands | COLORDIFF(1) |
NAME¶
colordiff - a tool to colorize diff outputSYNOPSIS¶
colordiff [diff options]
[colordiff options] { file1} {file2}
DESCRIPTION¶
colordiff is a wrapper for diff and produces the same output as diff but with coloured syntax highlighting at the command line to improve readability. The output is similar to how a diff-generated patch might appear in Vim or Emacs with the appropriate syntax highlighting options enabled. The colour schemes can be read from a central configuration file or from a local user ~/.colordiffrc file. colordiff makes use of ANSI colours and as such will only work when ANSI colours can be used - typical examples are xterms and Eterms, as well as console sessions. colordiff has been tested on various flavours of Linux and under OpenBSD, but should be broadly portable to other systems.USAGE¶
Use colordiff wherever you would normally use diff, or instead pipe output to colordiff: For example:$ colordiff file1 file2 $ diff -u file1 file2 | colordiff
$ diff -u file1 file2 | colordiff | less -R
$ wdiff -n file1 file2 | colordiff
alias diff=colordiff
colordiff --difftype=debdiff file1 file2
function cvsdiff () { cvs diff $@ | colordiff; }
function cvsdiff () { cvs diff $@ | colordiff |less -R; }
FILES¶
/etc/colordiffrcCentral configuration file. User-specific settings can be
enabled by copying this file to ~/.colordiffrc and making the appropriate
changes.
colordiffrc-lightbg
Alternate configuration template for use with terminals
having light backgrounds. Copy this to /etc/colordiffrc or ~/.colordiffrc and
customize.
BUGS¶
Bug reports and suggestions/patches to davee@sungate.co.uk please.AUTHORS¶
Dave Ewartcolordiff author and Debian packager
Graham Wilson
Manual page and XML source author
Colin Tuckley
Debian package sponsor
11/14/2012 | colordiff |