PyCharm 2017.3 Help

Command Line Differences Viewer

Viewing differences

To view differences using command line diff tool

  • In the command line, type the following:
    <PyCharm> diff <path1> <path2>
    where:
    • <PyCharm> is the platform-specific product launcher
    • <path1>, <path2> are full paths to the files to be compared.

Examples

Windows

PyCharm.exe diff C:\SamplesProjects\MetersToInchesConverter\src\javascript\numbers.js C:\SamplesProjects\MetersToInchesConverter\src\coffeescript\numbers.coffee

macOS

/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/MacOS/pycharm diff ~/Documents/file1.txt ~/Documents/file2.txt
Last modified: 28 March 2018

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