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I've owned and used Beyond Compare for a long time and its my go-to tool whenever doing Windows work. I miss it so much I recently went to see if it would run under wine installed via Homebrew. Surprisingly it works quite well. I still won't let up on my yearly emails to Beyond Compare support to encourage a native verison.
brew install wine --use-gcc
<download the beyond compare installer exe>
wine ~/path/to/installer.exe
<install>
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Beyond\ Compare\ 3/BCompare.exe
Its a darn good diff tool with great directory compare support, lots of config options. Surprisingly on my Mac via WINE its pretty damn speedy (once X11 is already loaded...)
I alias it:
alias beyondcompare="wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Beyond\ Compare\ 3/BCompare.exe >/dev/null 2>&1"
So I can do:
beyondcompare dir1 dir2
or
beyondcomapre file1.txt file2.txt
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