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NAME

       slack-diff - compare file contents, modes, etc

SYNOPSIS

       slack-diff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2

DESCRIPTION

       A wrapper for diff that displays file modes and other metadata changes.

       -u  -U NUM  --unified[=NUM]
              Tell diff(1) to use unified output format.

       --diff PROG
              Use this program for diffing, instead of diff.

       --fakediff
              Make a fake diff for file modes and other things  that  are  not
              file   contents.    Default   is   on,   can  be  disabled  with
              --nofakediff.

       -r  --recursive
              Recursively compare any subdirectories found.

       -N  --new-file
              Treat missing files as empty.  Default is on,  can  be  disabled
              with --nonew-file.

       --unidirectional-new-file
              Treat only missing files in the first directory as empty.

       --from-file
              Treat  arguments as a list of files from which to read filenames
              to compare, two lines at a time.

       -0  --null
              Use NULLs instead of newlines as the  separator  in  --from-file
              mode.

       --devnullhack
              You  have  a version of diff that can’t deal with -N when not in
              recursive mode, so we need to feed it /dev/null instead  of  the
              missing   file.    Default   is   on,   can   be  disabled  with
              --nodevnullhack.

       --version
              Output version info.

       --help Output this help.

       FILES are ‘FILE1 FILE2’ or ‘DIR1 DIR2’ or  ‘DIR  FILE...’  or  ‘FILE...
       DIR’.   If --from-file or --to-file is given, there are no restrictions
       on FILES.  If a FILE is ‘-’, read standard input.

SEE ALSO

       diff(1)