diff-lines-cli

Compare two files and show differences with beautiful colored output.

Installation

npm install -g diff-lines-cli

Usage

Basic comparison

diff-lines-cli file1.txt file2.txt

Side-by-side mode

diff-lines-cli --side-by-side file1.txt file2.txt

Control context lines

diff-lines-cli -C 5 file1.txt file2.txt

Summary only (stat mode)

diff-lines-cli --stat file1.txt file2.txt

JSON output

diff-lines-cli --json file1.txt file2.txt

Ignore whitespace

diff-lines-cli -w file1.txt file2.txt

Read from stdin

echo "hello world" | diff-lines-cli - file2.txt
cat file1.txt | diff-lines-cli - file2.txt

Options

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --side-by-side | Show differences side by side | | -C, --context <n> | Number of context lines (default: 3) | | --stat | Show summary statistics only | | --json | Output differences in JSON format | | -w, --ignore-whitespace | Ignore whitespace differences |

License

MIT