REGDIFF(1)

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version 4.24.7 · 19 versions
, in fedora 44, ubuntu noble

💖 REGDIFF(1) — the Windows registry diff girlie 💖

System Administration tools ✨ part of the Samba suite, bestie

🌸 NAME 🌸

regdiff — the diff program for Windows registry files 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

regdiff [--help] [--backend=BACKEND] [--credentials=CREDENTIALS]
        [location]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so. regdiff takes two Windows registry files and compares them key by key and value by value, and then it generates a text file that holds all the differences between those two files. no cap, that's the whole job and it does it flawlessly. 💖

and the glow-up? a file that regdiff spits out can later be applied to a registry file by the regpatch utility. it's giving "make the diff, then patch it in." iconic behaviour honestly. 🎀

also, both regdiff and regpatch use the exact same file format as the regedit32.exe utility from Windows. same format, no translation drama. 🫶

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • --help — shows you the list of available options. bestie behaviour: it just tells you what's up. ✨
  • --backend BACKEND — the name of the backend to load. possible values are: creg, regf, dir and rpc. the default is dir. 👑
this argument can be specified twice: once for the first registry file and once for the second. (yes, they can be different, and yes, that's the point. 💅)
  • --credentials=CREDENTIALS — the credentials to use, if any. the password should be separated from the user name by a percent sign. 🔐
this argument can be specified twice: once for the first registry file and once for the second. 🍓

⭐ VERSION ⭐

this man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite. periodt. 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

gregedit, regshell, regpatch, regtree, samba, patch, diff

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this utility is part of the Samba<sup>[1]</sup> suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team<sup>[2]</sup>. 🌍

this manpage and regdiff were written by Jelmer Vernooij. 🫡

💀 NOTES 💀

  1. Samba http://www.samba.org/
  2. Samba Team http://www.samba.org/samba/team/

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one's from Samba 4.0, dated 09/09/2026 — go read your registry diffs in peace, you absolute main character 🎀✨

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