Nice stuff to do with diff commands: ====== Compare output of 2 commands ====== ===== Basic ===== diff <(command 1) <(command 2) ===== Side by side ===== diff -y <(command 1) <(command 2) You can control the width of the columns diff -y --width= XXX<(command 1) <(command 2) Where XXX is the number of columns