regdiff(1)

regdiff1

Diff program for windows registry files

Usage

regdiff [--help] [--backend=BACKEND] [--credentials=CREDENTIALS] [location]

Overview

regdiff compares two Windows registry files key by key and value by value and generates a text file that contains the differences between the two files.

A file generated by regdiff can later be applied to a registry file by the regpatch utility.

regdiff and regpatch use the same file format as the regedit32.exe utility from Windows.

Options

--help

Show list of available options.

--backend BACKEND

Name of backend to load. Possible values are: creg, regf, dir and rpc. The default is dir.

This argument can be specified twice: once for the first registry file and once for the second.

--credentials=CREDENTIALS

Credentials to use, if any. Password should be separated from user name by a percent sign.

This argument can be specified twice: once for the first registry file and once for the second.

Version

This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.

Notes

1.

Samba

http://www.samba.org/

2.

Samba Team

http://www.samba.org/samba/team/

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 10
  5. 11
  6. 12
  7. 13
  8. Arch

Author

This utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2].

This manpage and regdiff were written by Jelmer Vernooij.

From samba 2:4.25.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.