docdiff1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the docdiff commands.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the HTML format; see below.

docdiff is a program that compares two files and shows the difference. It can compare files word by word, char by char, or line by line. It has several output formats such as HTML/XHTML, tty, Manued, or user-defined markup.

It supports several encodings and end-of-line characters, including ASCII, UTF-8, EUC-JP, Shift_JIS, CR, LF, and CRLF.

Options

--resolution=RESOLUTION

specify resolution (granularity) line|word|char (default is word)

--line

set resolution to line

--word

set resolution to word

--char

set resolution to char

--encoding=ENCODING

specify character encoding ASCII|EUC-JP|Shift_JIS|UTF-8|auto (default is auto)

--ascii

same as --encoding=ASCII

--eucjp

same as --encoding=EUC-JP

--sjis

same as --encoding=Shift_JIS

--utf8

same as --encoding=UTF-8

--eol=EOL

specify end-of-line character CR|LF|CRLF|auto (default is auto)

--cr

same as --eol=CR

--lf

same as --eol=LF

--crlf

same as --eol=CRLF

--format=FORMAT

specify output format tty|manued|html|wdiff|user (default is html; user tags have to be described in config file)

--tty

same as --format=tty

--manued

same as --format=manued

--html

same as --format=html

--wdiff

same as --format=wdiff

--digest

digest output, do not show all

--cache

use file cache

--no-config-file

do not read config files

--verbose

run verbosely

--help

show usage

--version

show version

--license

show license

--author

show author(s)