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 A screen shot of Kompare |
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| Developed by | The Kompare Team |
| OS | Unix-like |
| Genre | Diff Tool |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www.caffeinated.me.uk/kompare |
Kompare is a free software graphical computer application which helps the user to compare two different text files or two directories. A software developer is a person or organization concerned with facets of the software development process wider than design and coding a somewhat broader scope of An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination A Unix-like (sometimes shortened to *nix) Operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system while not necessarily conforming Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function type or field of use A software license (or software licence in commonwealth usage is a Legal instrument governing the usage or redistribution of copyright protected software A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Free software or software libre is Software that can be used studied and modified without restriction and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified Application software is a subclass of Computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly and thoroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform Users in a Computing context refers to one who uses a computer system A text file (sometimes spelled "textfile" is a kind of Computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines. In Computing, a directory, catalog, folder or drawer is an entity in a File system, which contains a group of files and/or other directories It is part of the KDE desktop environment and therefore primarily used on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. KDE ( K Desktop Environment) (ˌkeɪdiːˈiː is a Free software project which aims to be a powerful system for an easy-to-use Desktop environment. In graphical computing a desktop environment ( DE) commonly refers to a style of Graphical user interface (GUI that is based on the Desktop metaphor which Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination Kompare does not actually compute the differences between the compared files itself, but is merely a graphical front end to the command line interface diff utility. Front-end and back-end are generalized terms that refer to the initial and the end stages of a process In Computing, diff is a File comparison utility that outputs the differences between two files or the changes made to a current file by comparing it to a
It is a standard KDE tool, it comes packaged with the kdesdk module.
Kompare was previously known as "kdiff".
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Comparing text files
As the above image shows, Kompare displays the two compared files next to each other in a way that corresponding lines are always positioned as near to each other as possible, independent of the position of the scrollbar. A scrollbar is a graphical widget in a GUI with which continuous text pictures or anything else can be scrolled including time in video applications i Lines that are different in the compared files are highlighted in both file views. Three different colors are used for highlighting, indicating whether the highlighted passage either
- exists in the first file but not in the second one (ie. the highlighted passage has been deleted from the first file); or
- exists in the second file but not in the first one (ie. it has been added to the first file); or
- exists in both files but is different (ie. it has been changed since the first file had been created)
Other features of Kompare
An incomplete list of features Kompare supports additionally to comparing text files follows.
Comparing directories
When two directories are chosen to be compared instead of two text files, Kompare displays a directory tree for both selected directories, which contains only pairs of corresponding files and directories that are not equal in the two compared directories. In Computing, a directory, catalog, folder or drawer is an entity in a File system, which contains a group of files and/or other directories A text file (sometimes spelled "textfile" is a kind of Computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines. A tree view or an outline view is a Graphical user interface element ( widget) that presents a hierarchical view of information Clicking on an entry displays a comparison of the two selected files.
Creating and applying patches
Kompare is able to create a patch file which lists only the differences between two compared text files A and B. A text file (sometimes spelled "textfile" is a kind of Computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines. Further, Kompare can apply a patch file which was created this way to an original file A and, in this manner, recompute the contents of the corresponding file B. This is a comfortable utility for passing a corrected version of a file to a friend who already has an older version of the same file, because only the (relatively small) patch file has to be delivered and the receiver can generate the corrected file by applying the patch to the original file.
The patches created and applied by Kompare are compatible to patch files generated or applied by the command line interface diff utility, because Kompare is in fact merely a graphical front end to diff and the patches are created and applied by patch, which gets called by Kompare. In Computing, diff is a File comparison utility that outputs the differences between two files or the changes made to a current file by comparing it to a Front-end and back-end are generalized terms that refer to the initial and the end stages of a process In Computing, diff is a File comparison utility that outputs the differences between two files or the changes made to a current file by comparing it to a patch is a Unix program that updates text files according to instructions contained in a separate file called a patch file.
See also
- Comparison of file comparison tools
- meld, KDiff3 - visualize differences very much like Kompare, but also allow merging files and editing details of the text. General Basic general information about File comparison software Meld is a free Computer program for Linux and other Unix-like platforms for viewing and merging differences between files in a graphical
- FileMerge presents file differences using a style very similar to Kompare.
- WinMerge, a similar free software tool for Microsoft Windows. WinMerge is a Free software, Open source tool for File comparison and merging text-like files
External links
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