MDIFF(1)

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version 1.2.2 · 5 versions
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🦋 MDIFF(1) — the girl's guide to mdiff 🦋

okay so this is the manual page for mdiff version 1.2.2, and it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, bestie. buckle up 💖

✨ NAME ✨

mdiff — manual page for mdiff 1.2.2

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mdiff [OPTION]... [FILE]...

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

mdiff — it studies multiple files and searches for similar sequences, and then it produces possibly detailed lists of differences and similarities. like, it's giving detective energy 🔍✨

🎀 Operation modes ✨

  • -h — (ignored) 💀 yeah literally ignored, it does nothing, don't ask
  • -v, --verbose — report a few statistics on stderr
  • --help — display this help then exit
  • --version — display program version then exit

🎀 Formatting output 💅

  • -T, --initial-tab — produce TAB instead of initial space
  • -l, --paginate — paginate output through pr
  • -S, --string[=STRING] — take note of another user STRING
  • -V, --show-links — give file and line references in annotations
  • -t, --expand-tabs — expand tabs to spaces in the output

🎀 Debugging 🔥

  • -0, --debugging — output many details about what is going on

🎀 Word mode options 🧚

  • -1, --no-deleted — inhibit output of deleted words
  • -2, --no-inserted — inhibit output of inserted words
  • -3, --no-common — inhibit output of common words
  • -A, --auto-pager — automatically calls a pager
  • -k, --less-mode — variation of printer mode for "less"
  • -m, --avoid-wraps — do not extend fields through newlines
  • -o, --printer — overstrike as for printers
  • -z, --terminal — use termcap as for terminal displays
  • -O, --item-regexp=REGEXP — compare items as defined by REGEXP
  • -W, --word-mode — compare words instead of lines
🫶 With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. periodt.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Franc,ois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>. (yes the comma is literally in there, no cap, we keep it exactly as-is 💖)

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Report bugs to <wdiff-bugs@gnu.org>.

Copyright © 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

💀 NO warranty bestie, like none, zero, nada — say it with me.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

The full documentation for mdiff is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and mdiff programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info mdiff

should give you access to the complete manual. 🦋

and that's the whole thing, bestie — mdiff 1.2.2, dated April 2014, manual section MDIFF(1). slay, go diff something 💅✨🎀

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