KDIFF3(1)

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version 1.12.6 · 4 versions
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✨ KDIFF3 ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the KDiff3 User's Manual, aka KDIFF3(1) 💖 this is the manual page for kdiff3, and she is that girl — she compares and merges files and folders like it's nothing. no cap. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

kdiff3 — Tool for Comparison and Merge of Files and Folders 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kdiff3 [-u, --ignore] [--query] [--html] [--abort] [-m, --merge]
       [-b, --base file] [-o, --output file] [--out file] [--noauto]
       [--auto] [--L1 alias1] [--L2 alias2] [--L3 alias3]
       [-L, --fname alias] [--cs string] [--confighelp] [--config file]
       [File1] [File2] [File3]

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Compares two or three input files or folders. literally that's the whole job and she does it flawlessly ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -u, --ignore — Ignored. (User defined.) bestie she is simply not listening to this one 🙈
  • --query — Ignored. (User defined.) yeah no, also not happening 💀
  • --html — Ignored. (User defined.) still ignoring, iconic behaviour honestly
  • --abort — Ignored. (User defined.) nope, ignored too ✨
  • -m, --merge — Merge the input. 🔥
  • -b, --base file — Explicit base file. For compatibility with certain tools. 🫶
  • -o, --output file — Output file. Implies -m. e.g.: -o newfile.txt 💅
  • --out file — Output file, again. (For compatibility with certain tools.) she said it twice, and she meant it twice 🎀
  • --auto — No GUI if all conflicts are auto-solvable. (Needs -o file.) 🌈
  • --noauto — Ignore --auto and always show GUI. main character energy, the GUI is staying 🧚
  • --L1 alias1 — Visible name replacement for input file 1 (base). 💖
  • --L2 alias2 — Visible name replacement for input file 2. 💖
  • --L3 alias3 — Visible name replacement for input file 3. 💖
  • -L, --fname alias — Alternative visible name replacement. Supply this once for every input. one for each, no skipping ✨
  • --cs string — Override a config setting. Use once for every setting. e.g.: --cs AutoAdvance=1. ⭐
  • --confighelp — Show list of config settings and current values. the receipts, basically 🧾
  • --config file — Use a different config file. 🦋
  • File1 — file1 to open (base, if not specified via --base) 💜
  • File2 — file2 to open 💜
  • File3 — file3 to open 💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kdiff3 (either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/kdiff3).

kf6options(7)

qt6options(7)

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

This manual page was written by Burkhard Lück <lueck@hube-lueck.de>. 💖

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Burkhard Lueck <lueck@hube-lueck.de>

  • KDiff3 man page.
lowkey important: everything above is the whole page, nothing skipped, nothing invented. periodt 💅

and that's the vibe check bestie — this was kdiff3 version 1.8, dated 2019-02-22, and yes she's still slaying 🎀💖✨ bye luv u 🫶

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