Cool ways to Diff two HTTP Requests in your terminal!

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Basic diffing

• Line by line
• No colors
• Able to be piped into vim (shown later on)

diff <(curl -vs https://reddit.com 2>&1) <(curl -vs https://reddit.com 2>&1)

Advanced diffing

• Side by side
• No colors
• Not able to be piped into vim

diff -y -W $COLUMNS <(curl -Lvs https://www.google.com/ 2>&1) <(curl -Lvs http://www.google.com/ 2>&1)

Colordiffed

• Requires colordiff
  • yum install colordiff
  • apt-get install colordiff
  • brew install colordiff
• Colored (buggy)
• Line by line or Side by side

colordiff -y -W $COLUMNS <(curl -Lvs https://www.google.com/ 2>&1) <(curl -Lvs http://www.google.com/ 2>&1)

Vim Piped Diff

• Line by line
• Colored
• Editable

diff <(curl -Lvs https://www.google.com/ 2>&1) <(curl -Lvs http://www.google.com/ 2>&1) | vim -R -

Vim Diffing

• Side by side diff
• Colored
• Editable

vim -d <(curl -Lvs https://www.google.com/ 2>&1) <(curl -Lvs http://www.google.com/ 2>&1)

Diffr Diffing

• Requires Diffr
  • npm install diffr -g
• Line by line diff & Side by side diff -c option
• Colored

diffr <(curl -Lvs https://www.google.com/ 2>&1) <(curl -Lvs http://www.google.com/ 2>&1)

Notes

If $COLUMNS doesn't work

Try -yW"`tput cols`"