Filemerge is a utility for merging a large number of small HDFS files into smaller number of large files. Filemerge is intended for use by Hadoop operations engineers and map-reduce application developers. The structure of the code is simple. The actual merging is performed by a Pig script created at run time using user-supplied parameters. FileMerge is part of Xcode 4.x by Apple which you can download from the Mac App Store. The following is taken from the description: Xcode is now distributed as an application, rather than as an installer. The good news is that XCode provides a GUI tool called FileMerge, which is also known as opendiff from the command line. You do have to agree to the Xcode/iOS license, which requires local admin privileges, to use this tool. $ which opendiff /usr/bin/opendiff. It appears to provide a very intuitive GUI representation of the differences.

Recently a developer colleague of mine was asking about diff tools. We let himknow that he can use Homebrew to install a ported versionof the ‘diff’ tool provided byGNU utils.

An expensive alternative is Kaleidoscope app, which looks great but might beoverkill for our purposes.

The good news is that XCode provides a GUI tool called FileMerge, which is alsoknown as opendiff from the command line. You do have to agree to the Xcode/iOSlicense, which requires local admin privileges, to use this tool.

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It appears to provide a very intuitive GUI representation of the differences.You can also configure it to be the default merge tool with Git.

If you want to launch FileMerge from the Launcher, you’ll need to open theApplications folder, right-click on XCode, choose to ‘Show Package Contents’,then navigate to Contents/Applications. Inside you’ll see the FileMergeapplication.

If you right-click on FileMerge, you can right-click, choose to ‘Make Alias’,then move the alias to your Applications folder.

To merge spreadsheets from MS Excel, Libre Office Calc, Google Sheets, etc., you must first save the sheet as a CSV (comma-separated values) file. In Excel and programs like it, click 'Save As' and save as a '.csv' file. In Google Sheets, click 'File > Download > Comma-separated values (.csv, current sheet).

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Once you have the CSV files, click 'Choose File' to upload them. Click the checkbox next to the files you want to merge and then click the 'Start Merge' button.