webdiff(1)

webdiff1

Find and highlight differences between webpages

Usage

webdiff [options]

Options

--help

Print a brief help message and exits.

--man

Prints the manual page and exits.

--archive=<pathname>

Archive HTML file

--current=<pathname>

Current HTML file

--out=<pathname>

Output HTML file (with highlighting)

--basedir=<pathname>

Base directory for files

--hicolor=<color>

Highlight color (Def: blue, yellow, pink, grey or #rrggbb)

--ignore=<filelist>

Comma-delimited list of named sections containing ignore keywords

--ignoreurl=<filelist>

Comma-delimited list of named sections containing ignore urls

--tmin=<number>

Don't check if token contains <= given no. of words

--tmax=<number>

Don't ignore if token contains >= given no. of words

--debug

Debug messages

Overview

webdiff will compare two webpages and create an output file with the changes highlighted.

webdiff is internal to websec and isn't well documented.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 2.2–3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0

--archive since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --basedir since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --current since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --debug since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --help since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --hicolor since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --ignore since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --ignoreurl since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --man since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --out since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --tmax since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --tmin since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

Victor Chew is the original author of this software and Baruch Even is continuing the maintenance.

From websec 1.9.0-4 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.