Re: Compare web pages by URL

["Jeremiah Wuenschel" <jeremiah wuenschel gmail com>]

An interesting 1-liner that doesn't require temp files would be:

meld <(wget -q -O - $url1) <(wget -q -O - $url2)

This is called "Process Substitution" for anyone interested in learning more.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Manuel Siggen <manuel siggen ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I want to ask if you have in mind to add meld the ability to compare two
>> web pages by specifying their URLs. Now I have to do select
>> all-copy-paste from the browser for each page, and redo that for
>> updating.
>
> As a temp workaround, you could use wget to download both pages to
> your local disk, and then diff meld:
>
>  $ wget $url_1 >> page1.html
>  $ wget $url_2 >> page2.html
>  $ meld page1.html page2.html
>
> Regards,
>
>      Manuel
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