Let's make a list of our favorite CLI utilities.
Any extra tips or tricks are welcome!
Yesterday I learned that set -x enables trace for a bash, sh, or zsh script and prints the trace to the terminal.
set -x
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I'm a pretty big fan of icdiff. This utility allows you to compare two files to see what has been added or removed by using colorful fonts to highlight values.
icdiff
https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff
Another good one is riff (riffdiff on crates.io).
EDIT: for single-column view, that is
I recently learned about diffsitter which uses tree-sitter for meaningful diffs