trydiffoscope - in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories (try.diffoscope.org client)
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Copyright
GPL-3+
TRYDIFFOSCOPE(1)
Description
diffoscope will try to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories different. It will
recursively unpack archives of many kinds and transform various binary formats into more human readable
form to compare them. It can compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDF just as easily.
It can be scripted through error codes, and a report can be produced with the detected differences. The
report can be text or HTML. When no type of report has been selected, diffoscope defaults to write a
text report on the standard output.
diffoscope is developed as part of the “reproducible builds” Debian project and was formerly known as
“debbindiff”.
trydiffoscope is a command-line API to the trydiffoscope web service.
Exit Status
Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.
Name
trydiffoscope - in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories (try.diffoscope.org client)
Options
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
--endpointENDPOINT
specify trydiffoscope API endpoint
--textTEXT
write plain text output to given file
--htmlHTML
write HTML report to given file
-u, --url
print URL instead of managing results locally
-w, --webbrowser
open webbrowser to URL instead of managing results locally (implies -u)
See Also
• <https://diffoscope.org/>
• <https://try.diffoscope.org/>
• <https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds>Synopsis
trydiffoscope [-h] [--endpoint ENDPOINT] [--text TEXT] [--html HTML] [--url] [--webbrowser] file file
