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OS X and Visual Diffs. Posted on 29 April 2008 by Demian Turner. What are people using as a visual diff tool on OS X? Since my move to the Mac just over 1 year ago this is the one tool I have been unable to replace.
Are there any Binary Diff tools for Mac OS X with a GUI? There are a gazillion text-based diff tools, but I need to compare two binary files. Essentially two Hex Editors with Dec/Hex View next to each other (the binary files are a custom file format, so not images or anything that has a more specialized diff tool)
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there is Ellié Computing Merge (http://www.elliecomputing.com) (NB: I work for ECMerge).it can compare arbitrarily large files with usual Hex+ASCII views and side by side visual diff.it works on mac and linux/windows as well Where is the quick analysis tool in excel.
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armelarmelMac Os Merge Tool
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I just discoverd Hex Fiend – love at first sight! Open both binary files then do
squarefrogFile > Compare x and y
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You could store the hex of each binary in temp files, then compare them with
diff
. This would give you the visual hex difference.xxd
creates a hex dump, and we're telling it to print one byte per line, then cut
splits on space and compares the correct columnyou could also use
devios1od
instead of xxd
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Maybe 'HexEdit by Lane Roathe', wxHexEditor or UltraEdit Postman tool for mac.
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My go-to is for stuff like this is 010 Editor. It has a very customizable hex bin-diff, configurable min match length, synchronized scrolling, and much more.
Beyond Compare 4 does a pretty good job, especially if you have multiple binary files to compare. However, it's matching isn't obviously configurable and can be wonky, depending on the use-case.
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