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wdiff — Display word differences between text files. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/m

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Problem

How to use the wdiff command: Display word differences between text files. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/manual/wdiff.html#wdiff-invocation>.

Solution

wdiff — Display word differences between text files. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/manual/wdiff.html#wdiff-invocation>.

Compare two files:

wdiff {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

Ignore case when comparing:

wdiff {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

Display how many words are deleted, inserted, or replaced:

wdiff {{[-s|--statistics]}} {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

Code Snippets

Compare two files

wdiff {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

Ignore case when comparing

wdiff {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

Display how many words are deleted, inserted, or replaced

wdiff {{[-s|--statistics]}} {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/wdiff

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