Comments on How to Compare and Merge Text Files on Linux using Desktop Tools (part 2)
This post is a response to the overwhelming comments about Meld (and other tools) on my previous article on text files comparison and merging tools. While my intention wasn't to focus on code text only but to also present something useful to word editors and writers as well, but the coders community objected for the “shallowness” of the previous post so here we go with part 2.
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or diff, diff3, sdiff, tkdiff.
Meld is nice, if you have a GUi.
Excelent article Bill.
I'm a big fan of meld and gvimdiff myself.I've written a preprocessing front end for them, to remove the unimportant differences.It has options to remove comments, whitespace, grep or ignore lines, search/replace, remove timestamps, etc.Afterwards, it runs meld/gvimdiff/kdiff3/kompare on these intermediate files.https://github.com/koknat/dif