(C) 2000 Hisashi MORITA
Compares two text files by word, by character, or by line
DocDiff compares two text files and shows the difference. It can compare files word by word, character by character, or line by line. It has several output formats such as HTML, tty, Manued, or user-defined markup.
It supports several encodings and end-of-line characters, including ASCII (and other single byte encodings such as ISO-8859-*), UTF-8, EUC-JP, Shift_JIS, CR, LF, and CRLF.
Note that you need appropriate permission for proper installation (you may have to have a root/administrator privilege).
docdiff/ directory and its contents to ruby library directory, so that ruby interpreter can load them.# cp -r docdiff /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1
docdiff.rb in command binary directory.# cp docdiff.rb /usr/bin/
docdiff.# mv /usr/bin/docdiff.rb /usr/bin/docdiff
chardiff or worddiff, docdiff runs with resolution set to char or word, respectively.# ln -s /usr/bin/docdiff.rb /usr/bin/chardiff.rb
# ln -s /usr/bin/docdiff.rb /usr/bin/worddiff.rb
# chmod +x /usr/bin/docdiff.rb
docdiff.conf.example as /etc/docdiff/docdiff.conf and edit it.# cp docdiff.conf.example /etc/docdiff.conf
# $EDITOR /etc/docdiff.conf
docdiff.conf.example as ~/etc/docdiff/docdiff.conf and edit it.% cp docdiff.conf.example ~/etc/docdiff.conf
% $EDITOR ~/etc/docdiff.conf
% docdiff [options] oldfile newfile
e.g.
% docdiff old.txt new.txt > diff.html
See the help message for detail (docdiff --help).
This software is distributed under so-called modified BSD style license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php (without advertisement clause)). By contributing to this software, you agree that your contribution may be incorporated under the same license.
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diff library (docdiff/diff.rb and docdiff/diff/*) was originally a part of Ruby/CVS by Akira TANAKA.
Ruby/CVS is licensed under modified BSD style license.
See the following for detail.
Excuse us this list is far from complete and fails to acknowledge many more who have helped us somehow. We really appreciate it.
There are several other software that can compare text word by word and/or character by character.
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We found that docdiff demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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