Recently I discovered on Guru's repository -- that's for SuSE, the rest of the world should refer to the home page meld.sf.net -- a nice GUI tool able to compare not only 2, but 3 files!

Of course it's Meld.

On that occasion I reviewed the most common options I have in SuSE Linux when comes to comparing files and directories -- or more precisely, diff && merge tools:

cmp, diff	- from diffutils, console; the basics
dirdiff	- X (Tcl/Tk), excellent for comparing directories
xwdiff	- X (Tcl/Tk), companion of wdiff, a classical one
mgdiff	- X (Tcl/Tk), dual-panel view
meld	- X (GNOME2, Python, PyGtk2), excellent! (ditto)
diffmk	- for comparing XML files, outputs HTML
KDiff3	- I don't use KDE (sorry)

P.S.: Meld also on GNOMEfiles. Homepage of dirdiff here. GNU wdiff is here. Homepage of KDiff3 is here. Also of interest: xxdiff and evp-dirdiff.

UPDATE 3/19/2008: I didn't know about BeeDiff, a Qt4-based graphical file comparator.

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