NAME
mdiff - manual page for mdiff 0.5.93
SYNOPSIS
mdiff [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
mdiff - Studies multiple files and searches for similar sequences, it then produces possibly detailed lists of differences and similarities.
Operation modes:
| -h | (ignored) |
| -v, --verbose | |
| report a few statistics on stderr | |
| --help | display this help and exit |
| --version | |
| output version information and exit | |
Formatting output:
| -T, --initial-tab | |
| produce TAB instead of initial space | |
| -l, --paginate | |
| paginate output through ‘pr’ | |
| -S, --string[=STRING] | |
| take note of another user STRING | |
| -V, --show-links | |
| give file and line references in annotations | |
| -t, --expand-tabs | |
| expand tabs to spaces in the output | |
Debugging:
| -0, --debugging | |
| output many details about what is going on | |
Word mode options:
| -1, --no-deleted | |
| inhibit output of deleted words | |
| -2, --no-inserted | |
| inhibit output of inserted words | |
| -3, --no-common | |
| inhibit output of common words | |
| -A, --auto-pager | |
| automatically calls a pager | |
| -k, --less-mode | |
| variation of printer mode for "less" | |
| -m, --avoid-wraps | |
| do not extend fields through newlines | |
| -o, --printer | |
| overstrike as for printers | |
| -z, --terminal | |
| use termcap as for terminal displays | |
| -K, --no-init-term | |
| like -z, but no termcap init/term strings | |
| -O, --item-regexp=REGEXP | |
| compare items as defined by REGEXP | |
| -W, --word-mode | |
| compare words instead of lines | |
AUTHOR
Written by Franc,ois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <wdiff-bugs@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for mdiff is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and mdiff programs are properly installed at your site, the command
| info mdiff | |
