Alternative for WinMerge in Ubuntu

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Solution 1

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. You can compare two or three files and edit them in place (diffs update dynamically). You can compare two or three folders and launch file comparisons. You can browse and view a working copy from popular version control systems such such as CVS, Subversion, Bazaar-ng and Mercurial. Look at the screenshots page for more detailed features.

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Solution 2

I like diffuse:

Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is able to compare an arbitrary number of files side-by-side and gives users the ability to manually adjust line-matching and directly edit files. Diffuse can also retrieve revisions of files from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion, and SVK repositories for comparison and merging.

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Solution 3

gvimdiff is handy for quick comparisons. Install gvim to get it.

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Solution 4

KDiff3 is cross-platform and has advanced line and character diff capability. See more about its features here.

Solution 5

Beyond Compare, supports Ubuntu 6.06 - 9.04, at least 32-bit.

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Maksim Kondratyuk

Currently working as Doctoral Student in the Speech Group of the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics of the Aalto Univerity School of Electrical Engineering (formerly TKK / Helsinki University of Technology) in Helsinki, Finland.

Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

Maksim Kondratyuk almost 2 years
I need to compare/diff/merge files in an easy way. In windows I would use WinMerge. What alternatives for this are available in Ubuntu?

The things I must be able to do:
- See 2 files line by line next to each other, with the differences highlighted
- Have an option for merging this files together
Maksim Kondratyuk almost 15 years

Thanks! This is great! (I will only wait a small moment more, before I accept your answer)
Maksim Kondratyuk almost 15 years

Great! And this one is also in the repository!
Ivo Flipse almost 15 years

Not in a hurry ;-) Glad you liked it!
Maksim Kondratyuk almost 15 years

This will be surely a good one for vim users. (So not for me, I don't like vim)
Maksim Kondratyuk almost 15 years

I accepted this answer, but as far I can see, diffuse is a as good option.
Ivo Flipse almost 15 years

Then I'll just upvote Diffuse ;-)
pavelkolodin almost 10 years

It does not support comparing dirrectories, very sad.
anatoly techtonik over 9 years

I can't say that I find its interface intuitive.
anatoly techtonik about 9 years

No screenshots is a fail. =)