How to change diff side by side markers to other ones?
I use
diff -y <file1> <file2>
or
sdiff <file1> <file2>
but I can’t find how to change markers from the defaults which are:
<
>
|
In particular, I would like to add a visible equality marker (as default one is a whitespace) replacing it with (for example):
=
to achieve something like:
ab c | ab d
efg = efg
Tried to quickly read the code at https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/tree/src/ but didn’t manage to find the place responsible for the markers (column delimiters).
The markers are handled in the last three functions of https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/tree/src/side.c in print_sdiff_hunk. There’s no option to override them.
You could post-process the output, relying on the fact that for a given width, the markers will always be in the same position in the output.