wdiff Command Examples

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

• Compare two files:

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

• Ignore case when comparing:

wdiff --ignore-case {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

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

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