| 1 | .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.27.
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| 2 | .TH SDIFF "1" "April 2002" "diffutils 2.8.1" "User Commands"
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| 3 | .SH NAME
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| 4 | sdiff \- side-by-side merge of file differences
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| 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 6 | .B sdiff
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| 7 | [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE1 FILE2\fR
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| 8 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 9 | Side-by-side merge of file differences.
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| 10 | .TP
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| 11 | \fB\-o\fR FILE \fB\-\-output\fR=\fIFILE\fR
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| 12 | Operate interactively, sending output to FILE.
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| 13 | .TP
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| 14 | \fB\-i\fR \fB\-\-ignore\-case\fR
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| 15 | Consider upper- and lower-case to be the same.
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| 16 | .TP
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| 17 | \fB\-E\fR \fB\-\-ignore\-tab\-expansion\fR
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| 18 | Ignore changes due to tab expansion.
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| 19 | .TP
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| 20 | \fB\-b\fR \fB\-\-ignore\-space\-change\fR
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| 21 | Ignore changes in the amount of white space.
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| 22 | .TP
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| 23 | \fB\-W\fR \fB\-\-ignore\-all\-space\fR
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| 24 | Ignore all white space.
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| 25 | .TP
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| 26 | \fB\-B\fR \fB\-\-ignore\-blank\-lines\fR
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| 27 | Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
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| 28 | .TP
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| 29 | \fB\-I\fR RE \fB\-\-ignore\-matching\-lines\fR=\fIRE\fR
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| 30 | Ignore changes whose lines all match RE.
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| 31 | .TP
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| 32 | \fB\-\-strip\-trailing\-cr\fR
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| 33 | Strip trailing carriage return on input.
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| 34 | .TP
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| 35 | \fB\-a\fR \fB\-\-text\fR
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| 36 | Treat all files as text.
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| 37 | .TP
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| 38 | \fB\-w\fR NUM \fB\-\-width\fR=\fINUM\fR
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| 39 | Output at most NUM (default 130) columns per line.
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| 40 | .TP
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| 41 | \fB\-l\fR \fB\-\-left\-column\fR
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| 42 | Output only the left column of common lines.
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| 43 | .TP
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| 44 | \fB\-s\fR \fB\-\-suppress\-common\-lines\fR
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| 45 | Do not output common lines.
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| 46 | .TP
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| 47 | \fB\-t\fR \fB\-\-expand\-tabs\fR
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| 48 | Expand tabs to spaces in output.
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| 49 | .TP
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| 50 | \fB\-d\fR \fB\-\-minimal\fR
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| 51 | Try hard to find a smaller set of changes.
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| 52 | .TP
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| 53 | \fB\-H\fR \fB\-\-speed\-large\-files\fR
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| 54 | Assume large files and many scattered small changes.
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| 55 | .TP
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| 56 | \fB\-\-diff\-program\fR=\fIPROGRAM\fR
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| 57 | Use PROGRAM to compare files.
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| 58 | .TP
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| 59 | \fB\-v\fR \fB\-\-version\fR
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| 60 | Output version info.
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| 61 | .TP
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| 62 | \fB\-\-help\fR
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| 63 | Output this help.
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| 64 | .PP
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| 65 | If a FILE is `-', read standard input.
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| 66 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 67 | Written by Thomas Lord.
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| 68 | .SH "REPORTING BUGS"
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| 69 | Report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
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| 70 | .SH COPYRIGHT
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| 71 | Copyright \(co 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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| 72 | .PP
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| 73 | This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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| 74 | You may redistribute copies of this program
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| 75 | under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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| 76 | For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
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| 77 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 78 | The full documentation for
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| 79 | .B sdiff
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| 80 | is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
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| 81 | .B info
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| 82 | and
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| 83 | .B sdiff
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| 84 | programs are properly installed at your site, the command
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| 85 | .IP
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| 86 | .B info diff
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| 87 | .PP
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| 88 | should give you access to the complete manual.
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