---
name: "diffmon"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "diffmon"
version: "20020222-9.2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/diffmon"
---

# diffmon(1)

Monitor files on your system.

## NAME

diffmon - Monitor files on your system.

## SYNOPSIS

**diffmon** \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

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

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below.

- **-D, --debug**

  Turn on shell debugging ("set -x").

- **-C, --compress-program CPROG**

  Use CPROG to compress saved file images.

- **-c, --config-file FILE**

  Use FILE as the config file instead of the default, searching DIFFMONPATH if FILE not absolute pathname.

- **-e, --errors-to MAINTAINER**

  Stderr is reported to maintainer via email. If MAINTAINER is set to "maintainer", the default maintainer is assumed (see above).

- **-h, --help**

  You're looking at it.

- **-o, --old DIR**

  Old reference files are kept and looked for in DIR instead of the default.

- **-p, --config-path CPATH**

  Use CPATH to search for configuration files instead of default path.  Overrides value of DIFFMONPATH environment variable.

- **-S, --suffix SUFFIX**

  Compressed file suffix.

- **-Z, --zcat-program ZPROG**

  Use ZPROG to read compressed file and output uncompressed version (should not uncompress file itself).

- **-n, --no-update**

  Don't update the saved file images.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Jeff Bailey \<jbailey@gnu.org\>. Copyright (C) 2002 Jeff Bailey.  This document is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.