Difr

A command-line tool to discern the differences between two text files.

Installation

Clone this repository

git clone "https://github.com/0xba1/difr.git"
cd difr

Ensure that you have rust installed, if not follow these instructions to install rust.

Build the binary by running

cargo build --release

Copy the binary file at ./target/release/difr or ./target/release/difr.exe(for Windows) to the bin folder of your choice and ensure it's included in $PATH

Example

Input:

difr sample/baz.txt sample/buz.txt

Output:

File 1:	sample/baz.txt	29bytes	1line(s)
File 2:	sample/buz.txt	19bytes	1line(s)

Computing SHA3-256 hashes of files...
File 1:	7623b9d516a1d92ce0795076f2a5081b8070fab79eb5cffb845e9d525be7111d
File 2:	c52fa205f47daf2b17c84ca57b50cffb2e9e08ccffcadffb77cde9477a1c1634

Contents of files are different


Line 1:
>	Look at what you made me do.
>	What is your hash?

It uses the coloured crate to provide better looking output.