dwdiff
About dwdiff
dwdiff is a diff program that operates at the word level instead of the line level. It is different from wdiff in that it allows the user to specify what should be considered whitespace, and in that it takes an optional list of characters that should be considered delimiters. Delimiters are single characters that are treated as if they are words, even when there is no whitespace separating them from preceding words or delimiters. dwdiff is mostly commandline compatible with wdiff. Only the --autopager, --terminal and --avoid-wraps options are not supported.
The default output from dwdiff is the new text, with the deleted and inserted parts annotated with markers. Command line options are available to change both what is printed, and the markers.
News
dwdiff version 2.1.4 released
This release fixes compilation issues with C99 compilers.
13-Dec-2020
dwdiff version 2.1.3 released
This release fixes compilation issues with GCC 10.
18-Jul-2020
dwdiff version 2.1.2 released
This release keeps dwdiff current with ICU, removing the use of deprecated interfaces and replacing icu-config with pkg-config.
10-Dec-2018
Download
The source for dwdiff is available here. Older releases are available here.
Several Linux distributions and BSD version are shipping dwdiff packages or build scripts/ports, for example Fedora Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. For some Unix variants or derivatives, dwdiff packages are provided through external repositories:
- SPARC/Solaris 2.5-10 and x86/Solaris 8-10, provided by Steve Christensen on his sunfreeware.com site.
- Mac OS X, through MacPorts or Homebrew.
- Slackware Linux, through Slackbuilds.org and Slacky.eu.
- The OpenPKG project (a generic Unix/Linux packaging system).
If your distribution does not provide dwdiff packages, you can either build dwdiff from source, or you can try filing a feature request with the maintainers of your distribution.
Contact
You can reach me at: dwdiff @ REMOVE ghalkes.nl.
Releases are also announced on the mailing list
If you wish to help with translations, go to the Transifex.net page for dwdiff.
Copyright Notice
Copyright © 2006-2018,2020 G.P. Halkes and others
dwdiff is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
Versions of dwdiff before 1.3 were distributed under the Open Software License version 2.0.
