47 lines
1.8 KiB
Groff
47 lines
1.8 KiB
Groff
.TH DIFF 1
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.SH NAME
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diff \- print differences between two files
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBdiff \fR [\fB\-c \fR|\fB \-e \fR|\fB \-C \fIn\fR\] [\fB\-br\fR]\fIfile1 file2\fR\fR
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.br
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.de FL
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.TP
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\\fB\\$1\\fR
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\\$2
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..
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.de EX
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.TP 20
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\\fB\\$1\\fR
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# \\$2
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..
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.SH OPTIONS
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.FL "\-C \fIn" "Produce output that contains \fIn\fR lines of context"
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.FL "\-b" "Ignore white space when comparing"
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.FL "\-c" "Produce output that contains three lines of context"
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.FL "\-e" "Produce an \fIed\fR-script to convert \fIfile1\fR into \fIfile2\fR"
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.FL "\-r" "Apply \fIdiff\fR recursively to files and directories of the same name, when \fIfile1\fR and \fIfile2\fR are both directories"
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.SH EXAMPLES
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.EX "diff file1 file2" "Print differences between 2 files"
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.EX "diff -C 0 file1 file2" "Same as above"
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.EX "diff -C 3 file1 file2" "Output three lines of context with every difference encountered"
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.EX "diff -c file1 file2" Same as above"
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.EX "diff /etc /dev" "Compares recursively the directories \fI/etc\fR and \fI/dev\fR"
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.EX "diff passwd /etc" "Compares \fI./passwd\fR to \fI/etc/passwd"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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\fIDiff\fR compares two files and generates a list of lines telling how
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the two files differ. Lines may not be longer than 128 characters.
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If the two arguments on the command line are both directories,
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\fIdiff\fR recursively steps through all subdirectories comparing
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files of the same name. If a file name is found only in one directory,
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a diagnostic message is written to \fIstdout\fR. A file that is of
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either block special, character special or FIFO special type, cannot
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be compared to any other file.
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On the other hand, if there is one directory and one file given on the
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command line, \fIdiff\fR tries to compare the file with the same name
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as \fIfile\fR in the directory \fIdirectory\fR.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR cdiff (1),
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.BR cmp (1),
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.BR comm (1),
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.BR patch (1).
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