NAME
icdiff - 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
- -E MATCHER, --exclude-lines=MATCHER
-
Do not diff lines that match this regex. Not compatible with the 'line-numbers' option
- --head=HEAD
-
consider only the first N lines of each file
- -H, --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. You may include the formatting strings '{path}' and '{basename}'
- -N, --line-numbers
-
generate output with line numbers. Not compatible with the 'exclude-lines' option.
- --no-bold
-
use non-bold colors; recommended for 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
- -r, --recursive
-
recursively compare subdirectories
- -s, --report-identical-files
-
report when two files are the same
- --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
- --show-no-spaces
-
don't color whitespace-only changes
- --tabsize=TABSIZE
-
tab stop spacing
- -t, --truncate
-
truncate long lines instead of wrapping them
- -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
- -W, --whole-file
-
show the whole file instead of just changed lines and context
- -P, --permissions
-
compare the file permissions as well as the content of the file
- --strip-trailing-cr
-
strip any trailing carriage return at the end of an input line
- --color-map=COLOR_MAP
-
choose which colors are used for which items. Default is --color-map='add:green_bold,change:yellow_bold,desc ription:blue,line-numbers:white,meta:magenta,permissio ns:yellow,separator:blue,subtract:red_bold'. You don't have to override all of them: '--colormap=separator:white,description:cyan
- --is-git-diff
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Show the real file name when displaying git-diff result
- -x PAT, --exclude=PAT
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exclude files that match PAT