icdiff(1)
terminal side-by-side colorized word diff
SYNOPSIS
icdiff
[,options/] ,left_file right_file/
DESCRIPTION
Show differences between files in a two column view.
OPTIONS
- --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
- --head=,HEAD/
-
consider only the first N lines of each file
- --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
- --line-numbers
-
generate output with line numbers
- --no-bold
-
use non-bold colors; recommended for with 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
- --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
- --whole-file
-
show the whole file instead of just changed lines and
context
