xenial (1) diffoscope.1.gz

Provided by: diffoscope_51_all bug

NAME
       diffoscope - in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories


SYNOPSIS
          diffoscope [-h] [--version] [--debug] [--html output] [--text output] [--max-report-size bytes] [--css
          url] file1 file2


DESCRIPTION
       diffoscope will try to get to  the  bottom  of  what  makes  files  or  directories  different.  It  will
       recursively  unpack  archives of many kinds and transform various binary formats into more human readable
       form to compare them. It can compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDF just as easily.

       It can be scripted through error codes, and a report can be produced with the detected  differences.  The
       report  can  be  text  or HTML.  When no type of report has been selected, diffoscope defaults to write a
       text report on the standard output.

       diffoscope is developed as part of the “reproducible builds” Debian project and  was  formerly  known  as
       “debbindiff”.


OPTIONS
       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       --version
              show program's version number and exit

       --debug
              display debug messages

       --html output
              write HTML report to given file (use - for standard output)

       --text output
              write plain text report to given file (use - for standard output)

       --max-report-size BYTES
              maximum bytes written in report (default: 2048000)

       --max-diff-block-lines MAX_DIFF_BLOCK_LINES
              maximum number of lines per diff block (default: 50)

       --max-diff-input-lines MAX_DIFF_INPUT_LINES
              maximum number of lines fed to diff (default: 100000)

       --fuzzy-threshold FUZZY_THRESHOLD
              threshold for fuzzy-matching (0 to disable, 60 is default, 400 is high fuzziness)

       --new-file
              treat absent files as empty

       --max-report-size bytes
              maximum bytes written in report

       --css url
              link to an extra CSS for the HTML report


EXIT STATUS
       Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.


SEE ALSO
       • <https://diffoscope.org/>

       • <https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds>


AUTHOR
       Debian “Reproducible Builds” Team


       GPL-3+

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