CC-Diff - Command-Line Diff Tool

This project is a custom implementation of a file comparison tool built with Go. It was developed as part of a coding challenge here. The tool allows users to compare two files and highlight the differences, providing a clear and intuitive output to track changes.

Features

• Compare two files line by line and display differences.
• Identify added, removed, and unchanged lines.
• Outputs differences in a format similar to traditional diff tools.
• Simple and lightweight implementation for efficient file comparisons.

Getting Started

These instructions will help you set up and run the project on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

• You need to have Go installed on your machine (Go 1.18 or later is recommended).
• You can download and install Go from https://golang.org/dl/.

Installing

Clone the repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/nullsploit01/cc-diff.git
cd cc-diff

Building

Compile the project using:

go build -o cc-diff

Usage

To run the diff tool, execute the compiled binary with two file paths as arguments.

./cc-diff file1.txt file2.txt

Examples of Diff Output

Example Input Files:

file1.txt:

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3

file2.txt:

Line 1
Line 3
Line 4

Command:

./cc-diff file1.txt file2.txt

Example Output:

< Line 2
> Line 4

Running the Tests

To run the test suite and ensure the tool works as expected:

go test ./...