STARCH-DIFF(1)

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version 2.4.42 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

starch-diff — literally the manual page for starch-diff 2.4.42+dfsg, bestie 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so. <pink>starch-diff</pink>. that's the whole vibe. here's the deets:

and here's how you actually call her:

$ starch-diff [ --chr <chr> ] starch-file-1 starch-file-2 [ starch-file-3 ... ]

so the way starch-diff works is: it compares the signatures of two or more specified Starch v2.2+ archives — either for all chromosomes, or for one specific chromosome if you pass one in. not me being thorough 💀

the typical output is a lil message telling you whether the archives' chromosome(s) are identical or dissimilar, and it gets written to the standard error stream (iykyk, not stdout, don't @ me 🙈).

and here's the part that's genuinely iconic for scripting: if all chromosomes are identical, starch-diff exits with a zero status code. and if any chromosomes are dissimilar, it exits with a non-zero status code. this is the whole reason she slays in a scripting environment 🫶✨ periodt.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the full documentation for starch-diff is maintained as a Texinfo manual. if the info and starch-diff programs are properly installed at your site, this command:

info starch-diff

should give you access to the complete manual. go read her, fr fr 📖💖

that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was starch-diff 2.4.42+dfsg, from August 2025. mwah, go diff some archives 🌸🦋🍓

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