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wdiff - Front end to GNU 'diff'

Compares two files on a word per word basis, finding the word deleted or added from the first file to make the second. A word is defined as anything between whitespace. It works by creating two temporary files, one word per line, and the executes 'diff' on these fields. It collects the 'diff' output and uses it to produce a nicer display of word differences between the original files.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/wdiff/HTML/
Source tarballhttp://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/wdiff/wdiff-0.5g.tar.gz
Version 0.5 (stable) released on 1994-11-05
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
Online manual included
Support contacts

Announce List<wdiff-announce@iro.umontreal.ca>
Developer List<wdiff-forum@iro.umontreal.ca>
Bug List<wdiff-bugs@iro.umontreal.ca>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repositoryhttp://wdiff.sourceforge.net/
InterfacesX Window System
Programsunify, mdiff
Source languagesC
Weak prerequisitestermcap, less
Related programsDiffutils, gtkdiff, tkdiff, Meld

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-02-01
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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