MINCDIFF(1)

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💖 MINCDIFF 💖

okay bestie, buckle up, we're doing the mincdiff page from the MINC User's Guide and it's literally so useful 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mincdiff — report differences between minc files

like, it tells you what's different between two minc files. that's the whole vibe. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mincdiff [-header|-body] [-l] [diff options] file1 file2

two files, some optional flags, and honestly that's it. slay. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea ☕ — mincdiff is a shell script, and what it does is compare two minc files by running diff(1) on the headers of the two minc files, and cmp(1) on the image variable. two different tools for two different jobs, and it's giving teamwork fr fr. 🤝

you can peek at just one part if you want:

  • want only the header differences? that's -header.
  • want only the body (aka the image variable) differences? that's -body.

the option -l gets passed on to the cmp of the image variable. 📬

and here's the cute part — any options it doesn't recognize (like -u, for example) get passed verbatim to the diff of the headers. so it's not ignoring your fave diff flags, it's just handing them off. main character energy honestly. ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -header — compare only the headers of the two files. just the header gossip, no image talk. 🙈
  • -body — compare only the image data of the two files. all image, zero header. 🖼️
  • -l — print the byte offset in decimal and the byte value in octal for each difference encountered in the image variable. so precise. so detailed. we love a thorough queen. 💯

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Peter Neelin

(iconic, we stan 🫡)

💜 COPYRIGHTS 💜

Copyright © 1993 by Peter Neelin

okay so that's the copyright, keep it cute and keep it intact, no cap. 📝

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too bestie, they're the supporting cast and they ate. 🍓

and that's the whole page!! this one's from the MINC User's Guide, dated $Date: 2004-05-20 21:52:08 $ — yes it's an oldie but it's still a goodie, and it's still out here doing its job. bye babes, go diff something 💖✨🎀

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