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diff with exact difference format

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when we diff of 2 files then output is showing lines which are different and then we have to manually find which word is different

diff file1 file2

is there any way to show or highlight ONLY the words which are different via diff or some other command ?

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You could install and try wdiff.

Code:

wdiff -t filea fileb

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