COLORDIFF(1) | 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 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.AUTHOR¶
colordiff is written and maintained by Dave Ewart <davee@sungate.co.uk>. This manual page and the source XML was written by Graham Wilson <graham@mknod.org> for Debian and is maintained by the author. Dave Ewart maintains the Debian package.01/25/2009 |