IDIFF(1)

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🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so this is the IDIFF(1) manual page from the General Commands Manual, and the command is idiff — literally interactive diff, bestie. no cap, that's the whole name. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

idiff [ -bw ] file1 file2

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

idiff interactively merges file1 and file2 onto standard output. the way that works: wherever file1 and file2 differ, idiff displays the differences in the style of diff -n on standard error and prompts the user to select a chunk. iconic behavior, honestly. 🦋

Valid responses are:

  • < — use the chunk from file1.
  • > — use the chunk from file2.
  • = — use the diff output itself.
  • q<, q>, q= — use the given response for all future questions.
  • !cmd — execute cmd and prompt again.

idiff invokes diff(1) to compare the files. the -b and -w flags, if passed, are passed to diff. that's it, that's the tea. 🫶

🗂️ FILES 🗂️

  • /tmp/idiff.* — the file pattern, bestie. 🎀

🧚 SOURCE 🧚

  • /src/cmd/idiff.c — source file location, slay. ✨

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • diff(1)
  • Kernighan and Pike, The Unix Programming Environment, Prentice-Hall, 1984.

and that's the IDIFF(1) footer sign-off, bestie — source: /src/cmd/idiff.c, footer: just the manual name, no date/version tea, periodt 💅💖

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