diff is a shell command that compares the content of files and reports differences. The term diff is also used to identify the output of the command and is used as a verb for running the command. To diff files, one runs diff to create a diff.
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diff is a shell command that compares the content of files and reports differences. The term diff is also used to identify the output of the command and is used as a verb for running the command. To diff files, one runs diff to create a diff.
Typically, the command is used to compare text files, but it does support comparing binary files. If one of the input files contains non-textual data, then the command defaults to brief-mode in which it reports only a summary indication of whether the files differ. With the option, it always reports line-based differences, but the output may be difficult to understand since binary data is generally not structured in lines like text is.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).