COOKIETOOL(6)

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💾 COOKIETOOL(6) — the games manual bestie 💖

okay so you found yourself in section 6 of the manual, the games manual, and the page you're on is COOKIETOOL(6). sit down, grab a snack 🍓, we're doing this.

✨ NAME ✨

cdbdiff — a whole program for operating on your cookie (fortune) database 🍪

like. it's literally the girl who does stuff to your cookie db. that's the vibe.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cdbdiff [options] <database1> <database2> <resultfile>

three files, bestie. two going in, one coming out. that's the whole shape of it.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this manual page documents the cdbdiff command, briefly. just a little taste. a lil appetizer, if you will ✨

and here's the tea 🫖: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. nope. not one. instead it has some plaintext documentation, which you can peep — see below 👀

cdbdiff is a program that compares two cookie databases and builds a list of those cookies that are only present in the second one, but not in the first of them. like a glow-up diff. what did you gain, queen 👑

and the input files? not modified in any way. untouched. pristine. we do not touch. we only look 💅

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

here's a summary of the options, and honestly? they ate. for a complete description, go read the documentation in the /usr/share/doc/cookietool directory. iykyk.

  • [nothing] — no options at all? she shows you a summary of options. a little menu moment 🎀
  • -c — case sensitive comparisons. capital letters MATTER, fr fr 🔠
  • -d[0-3] — how fussy are we about word delimiters? like how picky, how extra. (default: 2) 🙈
  • -f[0-3] — input file format, and there are levels to this:
    • -f3: cookies are separated by %% lines
    • -f2: cookies are separated by % lines (DEFAULT) ⭐
    • -f1: each line is a cookie
    • -f0: each word is a cookie (chaotic. unhinged. iconic 💀)
  • -a — append if <resultfile> exists, instead of failing. so instead of the whole thing going 💀 it just adds to the file. main character energy.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go say hi to her sisters 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

None known.

periodt. flawless. no notes. 💅✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the upstream author, and the person who uploaded the Aminet cookietool.lha package with the AmigaOS binaries, is Wilhelm Noeker, <wnoeker@t-online.de>. 🫶

the Unix manpages (including this one right here, the one you're reading, hi 💖) and the makefile are maintained by Miros/law L. Baran, <baran@debian.org>.

also — this manual page uses many excerpts from the original README file. shoutout to the README, you did that 🌟

and that's the whole page, bestie!! no cap, every option, every path, every name, all of it. you're basically a cdbdiff expert now 🧚

this was the COOKIETOOL(6) page from the Games Manual, dated May 19, 2001 — go forth and diff your cookies, you absolute legend 🍪💖✨

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