rdiff - based file differences
Please see following description for synopsis
rdiff(1) General Commands Manual rdiff(1)
NAME
rdiff - compute and apply signature-based file differences
SYNOPSYS
rdiff [options] signature old-file signature-file
rdiff [options] delta signature-file new-file delta-file
rdiff [options] patch basis-file delta-file new-file
DESCRIPTION
In every case where a filename must be specified, - may be used instead
to mean either standard input or standard output as appropriate.
RETURN VALUE
0 for successful completion, 1 for environmental problems (file not
found, invalid options, IO error, etc), 2 for a corrupt file and 3 for
an internal error or unhandled situation in librsync or rdiff.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | library/librsync |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
librsync(3)
AUTHOR
Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
The original rsync algorithm was discovered by Andrew Tridgell.
rdiff development has been supported by Linuxcare, Inc and VA Linux
Systems.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://source-
forge.net/projects/librsync/files/librsync/0.9.7/librsync-0.9.7.tar.gz/down-
load
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://librsync.sourceforge.net/.
$Date: 2002/01/25 21:25:34 $
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