TARDIFF(1)

📦 version 0.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 TARDIFF 💖

okay bestie, so this is TarDiff, a User Commands situation — and no, it's not the tar you're thinking of, it's the comparison one. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

TarDiff — compare two tarballs and report differences 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, TarDiff compares the contents of two tarballs and reports on any differences found between them. That's the whole vibe. 💅

Who's this for? Mainly release managers, who can use it as a QA tool to make sure no files have accidentally been left over or were added by mistake. Like a vibe check but for your tarball. 🔥

And the tea: TarDiff supports compressed tarballs, diff statistics, and suppression of GNU autotool changes. It's giving thorough. It's giving iconic. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tardiff [options] file1.tar file2.tar[.gz/.bz2]

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -m, --modified — Report on all changed files, including those present in both tarballs ✨
  • -l, --list — List all files, even those not changed at all 👀
  • -a, --autoskip — Skip files which belong to the GNU autotools (for --modified) 🙈
  • -s, --stats — Run statistics (diffstat) on all modified files (for --modified) 📊
  • -v, --version — Display tardiff version 🌈
  • -h, --help — Display this help screen 🫶

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

tar(1), tardy(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

TarDiff was written by Josef Spillner <josef@coolprojects.org>. This man page was written by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> based on help2man(1) output for the Debian Project, but may be used by others. Shoutout to both of them fr fr. 💖

Copyright (C) 2005 Josef Spillner <josef@coolprojects.org>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

yes bestie, that's the whole license blurb as given — don't come for me, that's what the page says. 💀

TarDiff 0.1 · December 2011 — and that's the whole page, bestie. mwah. 💋✨🦋

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