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dwdiff – diff program that operates at the word level

dwdiff is a diff program that operates at the word level instead of the line level.

wdiff is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis. A word is anything between whitespace.

ydiff is a view colored, incremental diff in a workspace or from stdin, with side by side and auto pager support.

diffr processes diffs and outputs them (in the console) with additional diff information on top of the unified diff format.

colordiff is a wrapper for diff and produces the same output as diff but with coloured syntax highlighting at the command line.

diffoscope is a utility that offers in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories.

icdiff can show you the differences between similar files without getting in the way.

Delta is a viewer for git and diff output. The program allows you to make extensive changes to the layout and styling of diffs.

diff-so-fancy strives to make your diffs human readable instead of machine readable. diff-so-fancy is free and open source software.

Meld is a graphical diff viewer and merge application for the Gnome desktop. It supports 2 and 3-file diffs, recursive directory diffs.

Kompare is an open source GUI front-end program that enables differences between source files to be viewed and merged.

TkDiff is a graphical front end to the diff program. It’s written in the Tcl programming language and under active development.

Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is implemented in Python and runs on platforms with PyGTK.

KDiff3 is a graphical text difference analyzer for up to 3 input files, provides character-by-character analysis and a text merge tool.

DiffPDF is a GUI tool that’s used to compare two PDF files. This program is written in C++ and is free and open source.