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Passing in the identifier as an argument of the shell script allows us to figure out the name of the temporary files.

Run a custom shell script to open up diffmerge with the files created in the steps above.

Store new text in a temporary file (using the identifier as part of the filename).

Store base text in a temporary file (using the identifier as part of the filename).

Set the value of the random identifier into a variable so the same identifier can be referenced later (subsequent steps refer to this value as just the “identifier”).

Get value of a pseudo-variable – random identifier.

Also, it comes with all Macs! As great as Automator seems to be, there are some drawbacks: the actions aren’t too customizable, and the flow of data within the workflow is strictly “output” of one action to the “input” of the next.

I set out using Mac’s Automator tool to create an application to prompt the user for two texts, create the temporary files, then pass it into DiffMerge.Īutomator is a very easy to use visual scripting tool that you can use to create workflows that can be automated (hence the name). DiffMerge is great in many aspects, however, it lacked the interface to paste in text to diff right off the start.

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After some searching, DiffMerge came up as one of the best free diff programs that would work on the Mac. Recently I’ve been needing an easy way to paste two versions of a text, and get the differences between the texts, specifically changes within a line (most diff programs only show which lines have changed).

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