rfcdiff - compare RFCs or Internet Drafts or any other text
files
- rfcdiff [options] file1 file2
- rfcdiff takes two RFCs or Internet-Drafts in text form as input, and
produces output which indicates the differences found in one of various
forms, controlled by the options listed below. In all cases, page headers
and page footers are stripped before looking for changes.
- --html
- Produce side-by-side .html diff (default)
- --chbars
- Produce changebar marked .txt output
- --diff
- Produce a regular diff output
- --wdiff
- Produce paged wdiff output
- --hwdiff
- Produce html-wrapped coloured wdiff output
- --oldcolour
COLOURNAME
- Colour for new file in hwdiff (default is "green")
- --oldcolor
COLORNAME
- Color for old file in hwdiff (default is "red")
- --newcolour
COLOURNAME
- Colour for new file in hwdiff (default is "green")
- --newcolor
COLORNAME
- Color for new file in hwdiff (default is "green")
- --larger
- Make difference text in hwdiff slightly larger
- --browse
- Show html output in browser
- --keep
- Don't delete temporary workfiles
- --version
- Show version
- --help
- Show this help
- --info
"Synopsis|Usage|Copyright|Description|Log"
- Show various info
- --width N
- Set a maximum width of N characters for the display of each half of the
old/new html diff
- --linenum
- Show linenumbers for each line, not only at the start of each change
section
- --body
- Strip document preamble (title, boilerplate and table of contents) and
postamble (Intellectual Property Statement, Disclaimer etc)
- --nostrip
- Don't strip headers and footers (or body)
- --ab-diff
- Before/After diff, suitable for rfc-editor
--abdiff
- --stdout
- Send output to stdout instead to a file
This manual page was written by Peter Spiess-Knafl
<dev@spiessknafl.at> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used
by others).