Description
The purpose of this program is to compare two versions of an
internet-draft, and as output produce a diff in one of several
formats:
- side-by-side html diff
- paged wdiff output in a text terminal
- a text file with changebars in the left margin
- a simple unified diff output
In all cases, internet-draft headers and footers are stripped before
generating the diff, to produce a cleaner diff.
It is called as
rfcdiff first-file second-file
The latest version is available from
http://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcdiff/
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Usage
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
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