Re: comparison of binary files in meld

[Fabio Pasini <fabio pasini gmail com>]

Hello there, 

Within linux (and probably other unix flavors), you can use the "strings" command line tool to check printable character sequences in any file.  Use "man strings" at a terminal window, for more help using it.

The screenshot you sent has dots for non-printables characters, so I believe that showing only printable chars would be enough  

You can apply the "strings" tools to each file you want to compare, save each output to a temp file, and then diff/meld those temp files.

Anyways, it would be nice to have meld doing this automatically for non-text files, when "strings" is available.

Best regards,
Fábio

2012/2/23 <claudio fischer freenet de>

Hi all,
as I wrote earlier, I'm changing from windows to linux.
Under windows I used the comparison tool "Compare It".
This tool has a nice feature I'm missing a little bit in meld.
You can compare binary files like e. g. bitmaps.
We use it to compare our whole project-folders which also

contain binary data saved by our applications.

Would be nice to have this in meld, nevertheless meld is a great tool!
I attached a screen shot of a binary comparison.

Regards,
Claudio

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