The diff, comm, cmp, and colordiff commands are among the many ways to compare text files on a Linux system. There are numerous ways to compare text files on a Linux system from the command line. This ...

The Linux comm command makes it easy to compare a couple text files and determine if they both contain the same lines -- whether the file contents are sorted or not. The comm command on Linux systems ...

I create two identical plaintext files by pasting the lyrics of a song into them. Then I delete the last stanza from File B to make it slightly different from File A. When I do a diff (or sdiff -s) on ...