rust-compare-files

This a simple CLI tool to compare two files and show the differences. It is written in Rust.

Installation

From crates.io

To install the tool, you need to have Rust installed. Then, you can run the following command:

cargo install compare-files

From source

or you can clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/rohaquinlop/rust-compare-files.git
cd rust-compare-files
cargo install --path .

Usage

To compare two files, you can run the following command:

compare-files /path/to/file1 /path/to/file2

Let's say you have two files, file1.txt and file2.txt, and you want to compare them. You can run the following command:

compare-files file1.txt file2.txt

Even, you can compare them if they are in different directories:

compare-files ~/Documents/file1.txt ./file2.txt

If you're using a ansi-compatible terminal, you can see the output with colors.