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pdiff (1)

Name

pdiff - produce a pretty comparison between files

Synopsis

pdiff FILE1 FILE2 [-- A2PS-OPTIONS...]

Description

PDIFF(1)                              FSF                             PDIFF(1)



NAME
       pdiff - produce a pretty comparison between files

SYNOPSIS
       pdiff FILE1 FILE2 [-- A2PS-OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION
       Pretty print the differences between FILE1 and FILE2.

OPTIONS
       -h, --help
              display this help and exit

       -v, --version
              display version information and exit

       -q, --quiet
              don't print informational messages

       -l, --lines
              search for line differences (`diff')

       -w, --words
              search for word differences (`wdiff')

       -o, --output=FILE
              save the output in FILE

       Options for a2ps are given after `--', for instance

              $ pdiff COPYING COPYING.LIB -- -Pdisplay

       News,              updates              and              documentation:
       http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/.

AUTHOR
       Written by Akim Demaille.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <bug-a2ps@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 1997-1999 Akim Demaille, Miguel Santana
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
       NO  warranty;  not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | text/a2ps        |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Volatile         |
       +---------------+------------------+

SEE ALSO
       a2ps(1), card(1), fixps(1), pdiff(1), psset(1), texi2dvi4a2ps(1).

       The full documentation for pdiff is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
       the  info  and  pdiff programs are properly installed at your site, the
       command

              info pdiff

       should give you access to the complete manual.



NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle  Solaris  can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source                was                downloaded                from
       https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/a2ps/a2ps-4.14.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps.



pdiff 0.4 (GNU a2ps 4.14)        December 2007                        PDIFF(1)