NAME

diff-bifcode2 - compare files containing Bifcode2

SYNOPSIS

diff-bifcode2 FILE1 FILE2 [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

The diff-bifcode2 utility compares two files contining Bifcode2. For example, if file1 contains:

{U3:oneI1,U3:twoI2,}

And file2 contains:

{U3:oneI1,U5:threeI3,U3:twoI2,}

Then running diff-bifcode2 against the two results in the following:

$ diff-bifcode2 file1 file2
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 {
 U3:one
 I1,
+U5:three
+I3,
 U3:two
 I2,
 }

A warning is printed to stderr if either file does not contain valid Bifcode.

Bifcode does not allow trailing newlines which makes it a little tricky to create them with a text editor. So they are stripped before comparing by default. You can use the --no-strip | -S option to not do this.

EXIT VALUE

This command exists with a value of 0 when the files match, and 1 when they do not.

SEE ALSO

This command-line utility is a tiny wrapper around the Bifcode2 diff_bifcode2() function.

AUTHOR

Mark Lawrence <nomad@null.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2017-2022 Mark Lawrence <nomad@null.net>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.