Have you ever needed to easily tell the difference between two files? diff on the command line to the rescue!
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First, don't forget to examine the docs by doing man diff from the command line. You'll find a slew of options to improve the default experience.
For the default comparison, just type diff name-of-file1 name-of-file2 and you'll get a result like this:
Basically, you're seeing a summary of differences between lines. 4c4 means there is a difference or change on line 4 of each file. The < 'aqua': '#00ffff', indicates what's in the first file and 'aquas': '#00ffff', indicates what's in the second file. The < and > symbols point to the relevant file: left (first file) and right (second file). 7,9c7,9 means there are differences in lines 7 through 9 and the subsequent lines display the differences. The last difference is 14d13. That's indicating that the first file has a 14th line that the second file does not have. It's great information, if not a bit hard to read.
Let's make it a bit simpler by adding another flag to the command. diff sample1.json sample2.json -y (the -y is shorthand for --side-by-side). This does the same comparison but puts the results side by side.
Wow! That's a huge improvement! Between the files, the | is an indicator that the lines are different.
That's all well and good, but can you imagine scrolling through a 5000 line comparison looking for a few differences? What a pain.
A new flag 🚩 to the rescue! diff sample1.json sample2.json -y --suppress-common-lines. --suppress-common-lines (sadly there is no shorthand) prevents the output from displaying any lines that are identical. Now, the results look like this:
Isn't that better? You could very quickly see the differences in giant files.
Now, for something completely different! Is the shell command line not your cup of tea? Visual Studio Code to the rescue! Code has a built-in diffing feature. From the file explorer, right click on the first file to compare. A context menu will open. Click on 'Select for Compare'.
Now, right click on the second file and choose 'Compare with Selected'.
Visual Studio Code Diff
Boom! You've got a beautiful side-by-side comparison of the two files.