---
name: "cdbdiff"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "cookietool"
version: "2.5-7"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cdbdiff"
---

# cdbdiff(6)

program to operate cookie (fortune) database

## NAME

cdbdiff - program to operate cookie (fortune) database

## SYNOPSIS

**cdbdiff** \[*options*\] *\<database1\> \<database2\> \<resultfile\>*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **cdbdiff** command.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has some plaintext documentation, see below.

**cdbdiff** is a program that compares two cookie databases and builds a list of those cookies that are only present in second, but not in the first of them. The input files are not modified in any way.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the documentation in */usr/share/doc/cookietool* directory

- **\[nothing\]**

  Shows summary of options.

- **-c**

  case sensitive comparisons.

- **-d\[0-3\]**

  how fussy about word delimiters? (default: 2)

- **-f\[0-3\]**

  input file format - -f3: cookies are separated by '%%' lines; -f2: cookies are separated by '%' lines (DEFAULT); -f1: each line is a cookie; -f0: each word is a cookie.

- **-a**

  append if \<resultfile\> exists (instead of failing).

## SEE ALSO

**[cookietool(6)](/cookietool/6.md)**, **[cdbsplit(6)](/cdbsplit/6.md)**

## BUGS

None known.

## AUTHOR

Upstream author and Aminet cookietool.lha package with AmigaOS binaries uploader is Wilhelm Noeker, \<wnoeker@t-online.de\>. Unix manpages (including this one) and makefile are maintained by Miros/law L. Baran \<baran@debian.org\>. This manual page uses many excerpts from the original README file.