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ColorDiff

Colour-highlighted 'diff' output

Updated - release version 1.0.7 released on Monday 5 November 2007

The Perl script colordiff is a wrapper for 'diff' and produces the same output but with pretty 'syntax' highlighting. Colour schemes can be customized.

To see how colordiff works, you can

read the man page (auto-generated from XML source), and
view some screenshots
read the changelog

Download colordiff:

Latest version: colordiff-1.0.7.tar.gz
PGP signature for latest version: colordiff-1.0.7.tar.gz.sig

Availability of colordiff with your Linux/BSD distribution:

Debian and Ubuntu users can probably just use "apt-get install colordiff" to download and install;
colordiff has been packaged for Gentoo Linux;
colordiff has been packaged for Fedora;
colordiff has been ported to MacOS X/Darwin;
colordiff is available with Lunar Linux;
colordiff has been ported to FreeBSD;

PGP key is available from my home page.

To receive notification of new versions and other announcements, please join the colordiff-announce mailing list. There is also a user/developer mailing list to discuss features of the program and to report bugs, post patches etc. - join the colordiff-misc mailing list.