Wdiff

Jul 20, 2023

Display word differences between text files

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From man page of wdiff wdiff compares two files, finding which words have been deleted or added to old_file to get new_file. A word is anything between whitespace. The output is collected and used to produce an annotated copy of new_file on standard output. Suitable annotations produce a nice display of word differences between the original files.

Example text-a I like FreeBSD. text-b I love FreeBSD.

 wdiff -n text-a text-b
I [-like-] +love+ FreeBSD.


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