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		wffurr on July 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Icdiff: Side-by-side highlighted command line diff... How is that similar? It's a GUI. There's a zillion GUI diff tools but very few console ones. icdiff is the only side by side CLI diff tools I have seen.

js2 on July 6, 2020 [–]

sdiff has been around forever:

https://linux.die.net/man/1/sdiff

It’s not a three-way diff and not highlighted however. (icdiff doesn’t seem to be a three-way diff either.)

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