WEBDIFF(1)

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version 1.9.0 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 WEBDIFF(1) — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, so this is the webdiff page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your friendly neighbourhood manual. It's a little tool that goes 👀 at two webpages and is like "bestie… these are NOT the same".

✨ NAME ✨

webdiff — find and highlight differences between webpages 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

webdiff [options]

That's it. That's the whole vibe. You just run it with some options and let it cook. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --help — prints a lil brief help message and then dips out. quick, polite, iconic.
  • --man — prints the manual page and exits. very "let me read the whole thing first" of you.
  • --archive=<pathname> — the archive HTML file. this is the old one, the "before" pic 📸
  • --current=<pathname> — the current HTML file. the "after". the glow-up. ✨
  • --out=<pathname> — the output HTML file, with all the highlighting baked in. this is where the receipts live 🧾
  • --basedir=<pathname> — base directory for the files. keeps everything tidy, no cap.
  • --hicolor=<color> — highlight color. default options are blue, yellow, pink, grey, or you can go full custom with #rrggbb. main character energy, your choice 🌈
  • --ignore=<filelist> — a comma-delimited list of named sections containing ignore keywords. basically: "these bits? don't even look at them bestie 🙈"
  • --ignoreurl=<filelist> — a comma-delimited list of named sections containing ignore urls. same deal but for the links 💀
  • --tmin=<number> — don't check if a token contains less than or equal to the given number of words. tiny tokens get a pass 🎀
  • --tmax=<number> — don't ignore if a token contains greater than or equal to the given number of words. big tokens stay in the convo 💖
  • --debug — debug messages. for when you're like "why is this happening" and you need the tea 🍵

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so webdiff compares two webpages and creates an output file with the changes highlighted. literally its whole job. it's giving "spot the difference" but make it automated. 🔥

lowkey important tea: webdiff is internal to websec and isn't well documented. so yeah, we're all just vibing here fr fr 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • websec(1) — go read that one too, bestie, they're a package deal 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Victor Chew is the original author of this software, and Baruch Even is continuing the maintenance. legends only, we love a handoff that actually works 💜

okay that's the whole page! and for the sign-off: this beauty lives in the world of perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — so yeah, she's fresh, she's maintained, she's iconic. go diff some webpages, bestie, you got this 💅✨🌸

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