properties-diff 0.3.0

Command line tool to compare properties files

properties-diff

Command line tool to compare properties files and print differences with colors as if you were using wdiff or diff tools.

Even if properties files are text files, using directly diff is not that efficient because of key/value pairs order or format (for example using = or [space]=[space] as separator, double quoting values...). properties-diff compare key/value pairs but not the order nor the format.

Usage

$ properties-diff tests/sample1.properties tests/sample2.properties -h
usage: properties-diff [-h] [-q] [--quote] [--sep SEP] [-m {simple,diff,wdiff}] [-A] [-D] [-M] left.properties right.properties

positional arguments:
  left.properties       left file to compare
  right.properties      right file to compare

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -q, --quiet           print less information
  --quote               use double quotes for values, example: foo="bar"
  --sep SEP             key/value separator, default is '='
  -m {simple,diff,wdiff}, --mode {simple,diff,wdiff}
                        select a format to show differences: using colors only (simple), using diff-like format (diff) or wdiff-like (wdiff) format. Default is 'wdiff'
  -A, --added           print added properties
  -D, --deleted         print deleted properties
  -M, --modified        print modified properties

Modes

You can see differences between the properties files using 3 modes using --mode <MODE> or -m <MODE>

• wdiff, prints the changes like wdiff tool would do (this is the default mode)
• diff, prints the changes like diff tool would do
• simple, based on colors, red for removed lines, green for added lines

Install

Install from the sources

$ pip3 install --user --upgrade git+https://github.com/essembeh/properties-diff
$ properties-diff path/to/file.properties path/to/another/file.properties

Install the latest release from PyPI

$ pip3 install --user --upgrade properties-diff
$ properties-diff path/to/file.properties path/to/another/file.properties