KOMPARE(1)

💖 KOMPARE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the kompare manual page — that's the KDE GUI for viewing differences between files, and yes she's iconic for it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

kompare — a KDE GUI for viewing differences between files 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kompare [ generic-options ]
kompare [ generic-options ] [ -c ] URL1 URL2
kompare [ generic-options ] [ -o [ -n ]] diff
kompare [ generic-options ] -b URL diff

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so Kompare is literally a graphical user interface for viewing the differences between two files, periodt. She will also optionally create a diff file, because she's versatile like that ✨

Depending on what you pass on the command line, Kompare can do three whole vibes:

• compare documents 📄
• display diff files 👀
• blend diff files back into original documents 🧚

And here's a cute little trick: if an url is given as -, then Kompare will read the corresponding file from standard input. So for instance, Kompare can be used as:

cvs diff | kompare -o -

This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit. no cap 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

Below are the kompare-specific options. For a full summary of options, run kompare --help. (yes, go read the whole menu, she has range 💖)

• -b URL diff — Blends diff into URL. Here diff is expected to be diff output, and URL is the file or folder that the diff output needs to be blended into. it's giving glow-up 💫
• -c URL1 URL2 — Compares URL1 with URL2. This is the default mode if two URLs are passed. she just knows what you mean 🥰
• -n — Used with -o to stop Kompare from checking for the original file. the anti-detective setting 🔍💀
• -o diff — Opens the given diff file. This is the default mode if only one URL is passed. Kompare will check to see if it can find the original file(s). If it can, it will blend the original file(s) into the diff output and show the result in the viewer. Passing -n will disable this check.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The original documentation from the program author is available in /usr/share/doc/kompare/. go read the source material, bestie, it's giving scholarly 📚✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Kompare was written by John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh@kde.org>, Otto Bruggeman <otto.bruggeman@home.nl> and others. absolute legends, fr fr 🙌

This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). slay 🎀

and that's the whole page, bestie — this was the General Commands Manual version of Kompare, dated March 25, 2005. mwah, take care of her 💖💅✨