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Title: Port of the week: diffoscope |
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Author: Solène |
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Date: 20 March 2021 |
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Tags: openbsd |
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Description: |
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# Introduction |
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Today I will introduce you to Diffoscope, a command line software to |
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compare two directories. I find it very useful when looking for |
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changes between two extracted tarballs, I use it to compare changes |
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between two version of a program to see what changed. |
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Diffoscope project website |
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# How to install |
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On OpenBSD you can use "pkg_add diffoscope", on other systems you may |
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have a package for it, but it could be installed via pip too. |
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# Usage |
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It is really easy to use, as parameter give the two directories you |
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want to compare, diffoscope will then show the uid, gid, permissions, |
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modification/creation/access time changes between the two directories. |
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The output on a simple example looks like the following: |
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```diffoscope output |
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--- t/ |
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+++ a/ |
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│ --- t/foo |
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├── +++ a/foo |
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│ @@ -1 +1 @@ |
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│ -hello |
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│ +not hello |
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│ ├── stat {} |
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│ │ @@ -1 +1 @@ |
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│ │ -1043 492483 -rw-r--r-- 1 solene wheel 1973218 6 "Mar 20 18:31:08 2021"… |
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│ │ +1043 77762 -rw-r--r-- 1 solene wheel 314338 10 "Mar 20 18:31:08 2021" … |
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``` |
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Diffoscope has many flags, if you want to only compare the directories |
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content, you have to use "--exclude-directory-metadata yes". |
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Using the same example as previously with --exclude-directory-metadata |
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yes, it looks like: |
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```diffoscope output without directories metadata |
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--- t/ |
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+++ a/ |
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│ --- t/foo |
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├── +++ a/foo |
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│ @@ -1 +1 @@ |
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│ -hello |
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│ +not hello |
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``` |
