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Let's make a list of our favorite CLI utilities. (programming.dev)

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Any extra tips or tricks are welcome!

Yesterday I learned that set -x enables trace for a bash, sh, or zsh script and prints the trace to the terminal.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm a pretty big fan of icdiff. This utility allows you to compare two files to see what has been added or removed by using colorful fonts to highlight values.

https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Another good one is riff (riffdiff on crates.io).

EDIT: for single-column view, that is

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I recently learned about diffsitter which uses tree-sitter for meaningful diffs