NAME

diff-bifcodeV2 - compare files containing BifcodeV2

SYNOPSIS

    diff-bifcodeV2 FILE1 FILE2 [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

The diff-bifcodeV2 utility compares two files contining BifcodeV2. For example, if file1 contains:

    {U3:oneI1,U3:twoI2,}

And file2 contains:

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

Then running diff-bifcodeV2 against the two results in the following:

    $ diff-bifcodeV2 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 Bifcode::V2 diff_bifcodeV2() 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.