wdiff Command Examples

Display word differences between text files. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/manual/html_node/wdiff-invocation.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}}