Re: Comparing 2 HTML files 'visually'

From: Ed Murphy (emurphy42_at_socal.rr.com)
Date: 08/07/03 

Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 01:07:40 GMT

On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 17:31:19 -0700, Nick Leeson wrote:

> I have two HTML files - call it file1.html and file2.html.Is there a
> utility in Linux that I can use to 'visually' compare the difference
> between the two files.Please note that I need to display and examine
> the difference in a Web browser like Mozilla. Otherwise I could have
> used the simple 'diff' utility.

How about this?

diff --side-by-side file1.html file2.html > diffs.txt
mozilla file:///home/yourname/diffs.txt

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