cmp: finds the first difference comm What is it? diff/patch https://git-scm.com/docs/git-difftool icdiff: http://www.jefftk.com/icdiff https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff /usr/share/doc/icdiff/README.md ## Using with git http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6412516/configuring-diff-tool-with-gitconfig To install this as a tool you can use with git, copy git-icdiff onto your path and run: git icdiff git difftool --extcmd icdiff