[CLUE-Tech] Merge tool for combining files

[Bruce Ediger]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Art Reisman wrote:

> Does anybody know of an easy to use Linux merge tool
> that allows you to merge two files together? Typically
> these types of tools are used to combine two slightly
> different files into a new file, and they allow you to
> select the differences you want through an interface.
>
> I found something called xxdiff, but after an hour of
> trying to get it built and installed it seemed not to
> be worth it. Just need a text based tool nothing
> fancy.

tkdiff does exactly what you want.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/tkdiff/?topic_id=45%2C52%2C53%2C54

I've been hauling it around from job to job, machine to machine for
years.  Tkdiff does require Tcl/Tk and gnu diff to work, though.  It's
not 100% self-contained.