PS-diff

Prescale table comparison tool

Additional requirements (optional)

Optional requirement for colored output: colordiff (on Debian/Ubuntu-based systems, install via sudo apt install colordiff)

Invoke a simple comparison of two existing prescale tables (in xlsx format):

bash run-ps-diff.sh PStable_left.xslx PStable_right.xslx

The xslx files can be given as local paths or as URLs (if the URLs are downloadable via wget).

All valid diff options are allowed (execute man diff for a list of them) as long as they are passed without any dash prefixes (i.e., do not prepend "-" or "--").
--by-line: perform a line-by-line comparison (default)
--by-name: performs a name-by-name (i.e, seed-by-seed) comparison
--no-color: do not colorize the terminal output

For further information on usage, run bash run-ps-diff.sh --help

Line-by-line comparison in two columns:

bash run-ps-diff.sh PStable_left.xslx PStable_right.xslx side-by-side

Name-by-name comparison in two columns:

bash run-ps-diff.sh PStable_left.xslx PStable_right.xslx side-by-side --by-name

Comparison in two columns, suppressing common lines:

bash run-ps-diff.sh PStable_left.xslx PStable_right.xslx side-by-side suppress-common-lines