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DHEX is awesome is comparing binaries is what you want to do. Feed it two files and it takes you right to a comparative view, highlighting to differences, with easy ability to move to the next difference. Also it's able to work with large terminals, which is very useful on widescreen monitors.
– Marcin
Commented Sep 8, 2011 at 0:08
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I prefer VBinDiff. DHEX is using CPU even when idling, I think it's redrawing all the time or something. VBinDiff doesn't work with wide terminals though. But the addresses become weird with wide terminals anyway, since you have more than 16 bytes per row.
– Janus Troelsen
Commented Oct 17, 2012 at 14:22
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vbindiff lets us actually edit the file, thx!
– Aquarius Power
Commented Sep 16, 2014 at 18:28
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@DanielBeauyat compressed files will be completely different after you encounter the first different byte. The output is not likely to be useful.
– Mark Ransom
Commented Aug 5, 2015 at 3:12
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@1111161171159459134 jdiff is part of a "suite" of programs to sync and patch the differences found by jdiff. But, as Mark Ransom said, that would be generally not wise on compressed files; the exception is "synchronizable" compressed formats (like that produced by gzip --rsyncable), in which small differences in the uncompressed files should have a limited effect on the compressed file.
– hmijail
Commented Feb 13, 2016 at 11:12

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