icdiff - terminal side-by-side colorized word diff
icdiff [options] left_file right_file
Show differences between files in a two column view.
- --version
- show program's version number and exit
- -h, --help
- show this help message and exit
- --cols=COLS
- specify the width of the screen. Autodetection is Unix only
- --encoding=ENCODING
- specify the file encoding; defaults to utf8
- -E MATCHER,
--exclude-lines=MATCHER
- Do not diff lines that match this regex. Not compatible with the
'line-numbers' option
- --head=HEAD
- consider only the first N lines of each file
- -H,
--highlight
- color by changing the background color instead of the foreground color.
Very fast, ugly, displays all changes
- -L LABELS,
--label=LABELS
- override file labels with arbitrary tags. Use twice, one for each file.
You may include the formatting strings '{path}' and '{basename}'
- -N,
--line-numbers
- generate output with line numbers. Not compatible with the 'exclude-lines'
option.
- --no-bold
- use non-bold colors; recommended for solarized
- --no-headers
- don't label the left and right sides with their file names
- --output-encoding=OUTPUT_ENCODING
- specify the output encoding; defaults to utf8
- -r,
--recursive
- recursively compare subdirectories
- --show-all-spaces
- color all non-matching whitespace including that which is not needed for
drawing the eye to changes. Slow, ugly, displays all changes
- --tabsize=TABSIZE
- tab stop spacing
- -u, --patch
- generate patch. This is always true, and only exists for
compatibility
- -U NUM,
--unified=NUM, --numlines=NUM
- how many lines of context to print; can't be combined with
--whole-file
- -W,
--whole-file
- show the whole file instead of just changed lines and context
- --strip-trailing-cr
- strip any trailing carriage return at the end of an input line
- --color-map=COLOR_MAP
- choose which colors are used for which items. Default is
--color-map='add:green_bold,change:yellow_bold,desc
ription:blue,line-numbers:white,meta:magenta,separator
:blue,subtract:red_bold'. You don't have to override all of them:
'--colormap=separator:white,description:cyan