DIFF(1)

📦 version 0.15.2, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

DIFF(1) 💅

okay bestie, this is the manual page for slack-diff, living in section 1 (User Commands) of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

slack-diff — compare file contents, modes, etc 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

slack-diff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

It's a wrapper for diff that displays file modes and other metadata changes. like, regular diff is cute but this one also notices when your vibes changed, not just your bytes. 👑

Here's every single flag, no skips, no cap:

  • -u, -U NUM, --unified[=NUM] — tells diff(1) to use unified output format. classic. iconic. the format of the people. ✨
  • --diff PROG — use this program for diffing, instead of diff. yes you can swap in your own little guy.
  • --fakediff — make a fake diff for file modes and other things that are not file contents. default is on, and you can turn it off with --nofakediff. 🎀
  • -r, --recursive — recursively compare any subdirectories found. it goes down. it goes deep. 🌀
  • -N, --new-file — treat missing files as empty. default is on, can be disabled with --nonew-file. 🫶
  • --unidirectional-new-file — treat only missing files in the first directory as empty. one-way street energy. 🌈
  • --from-file — treat arguments as a list of files from which to read filenames to compare, two lines at a time. 👀
  • -0, --null — use NULLs instead of newlines as the separator in --from-file mode. for when your filenames are feral. 💀
  • --devnullhack — okay so you have a version of diff that can't deal with -N when it's not in recursive mode, so we need to feed it /dev/null instead of the missing file. default is on, can be disabled with --nodevnullhack. it's a hack and it's honest about it, we respect that. 🙈
  • --version — output version info. 📜
  • --help — output this help. the classic cry for assistance. 😭
💡 FILES are FILE1 FILE2 or DIR1 DIR2 or DIR FILE... or FILE... DIR. if --from-file or --to-file is given, there are no restrictions on FILES. and if a FILE is -, read standard input. stdin girlies rise. 🧚

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

and that's the whole page, bestie. this beauty ships as diffutils 2.8.1, dated April 2002 — vintage, lowkey, but still serving. 🎀✨ mwah 💅

go forth and diff, you gorgeous genius. 👑🦋

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