CDIFF(1)

✨ CDIFF(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the cdiff page — that's the manual page for cdiff from section 1 of the manual, and yes it is literally the cutest little diff wrapper you've ever met 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

cdiff — a wrapper tool for colordiff periodt

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cdiff {URL|FILE}

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so. cdiff is a wrapper for colordiff, and what it does is it adds colour to a diff that you hand it as either a URL or a file. like, it's giving "diff but make it pretty" ✨

for example:

cdiff http://some.url.com/foo/thing.patch

and that's it, that's the whole vibe 🫶

but wait, there's more, because it also adds support for reading gzip, bzip2, xz, and lzma compressed diffs. compressed diffs!! it just handles them, no cap 🙈

and like colordiff does, it also supports reading diffs from standard input if you don't specify a URL or a filename. so if you're the type of main character who pipes things around, it's got you 👑

one more thing: cdiff pipes colordiff's output through less -R. so you get the colours and the pager, together, iconic 💜

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

cdiff is part of the colordiff package, which should be consulted for further reference. so like, if you need more tea, that's where the tea is 🍓

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Ville Skyttä — cdiff author ⭐
• Dave Ewart — colordiff author, packager for colordiff/cdiff 🌈

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okay that's the whole page, bestie, go forth and colour your diffs 💖

this has been cdiff (section CDIFF(1)), source cdiff, dated 01/12/2026 — mwah, slay, bye 🧚