---
name: "xxdiff-scripts"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "xxdiff-scripts"
version: "1:5.1+git20250320+dfsg-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/xxdiff-scripts"
---

# xxdiff-scripts(1)

Tools that allow automation of tasks with xxdiff

## NAME

xxdiff-scripts - Tools that allow automation of tasks with xxdiff

## SYNOPSIS

**xx-cvs-diff, xx-svn-diff, xx-\***\

## DESCRIPTION

**[xxdiff(1)](/xxdiff/1.md)**  is a graphical file and directories comparison and merge tool.

xxdiff-scripts is a collection of python scripts around xxdiff that allows automation of various diff, review and merge tasks using xxdiff.

## COMMANDS

All the programs in xxdiff-scripts script collection support the usual GNU command line syntax and have a --help option that has detailed information about the options supported.

- **svn-foreign**

  svn-foreign runs 'svn status' on the given Subversion checkout directories, to find out which files are unaccounted for and allows dealing with the files interactively.

- **termdiff**

  This is a single file, curses-based version of xxdiff in Python (work-in-progress).

- **xx-cond-replace**

  xx-cond-replace is a script to conditionally replace an original by a generated file.

- **xx-cvs-diff**

  xx-cvs-diff invokes 'cvs diff' with the given file arguments, and allows a xxdiff preview of the current changes made in a cvs checkout.

- **xx-cvs-revcmp**

  xx-cvs-revcmp displays file differences with the current or a previous CVS version.

- **xx-diff-proxy**

  xx-diff-proxy is a wrapper script for xxdiff that presents options that are the same as the diff or diff3 commands.  This can be used with programs that expect to call diff/diff3 to present differences to users, and can be configured with a different diff program.

- **xx-encrypted**

  xx-encrypted is a script to compare and merge contents of encrypted files relatively safely.

- **xx-filter**

  xx-filter walks a directory hierarchy, selects some files to be processed, performs replacements in files and confirms the application of changes via xxdiff.

- **xx-find-grep-sed**

  xx-find-grep-sed walks a directory hierarchy, selects some files to be processed and performs global sed-like replacements in the set of files.

- **xx-hg-merge**

  xx-hg-merge implements an interface compatible with hgmerge. Basically, it needs to exit with 0 on success, and to place the results of the merge in the 'left' file.

- **xx-match**

  xx-match is a script for invoking xxdiff on matching files using the basename of the files.

- **xx-p4-unmerge**

  A wrapper script that will split up a p4 file with merge conflicts to three files and invoke xxdiff on it.

- **xx-pyline**

  xx-pyline walks a directory hierarchy, selects some files to be processed and runs a given Python code on each line of the input. xxdiff is presented to confirm application of the changes.

- **xx-rename**

  xx-rename walks a directory hierarchy, selects some files to be processed and perform a replacement of a one string to another in the files and confirm the application of changes via xxdiff.

- **xx-sql-schemas**

  xx-sql-schemas dumps the schemas for two PostgreSQL databases, re-orders the contents so that they diff nicely, and spawns xxdiff on the results.

- **xx-svn-diff**

  xx-svn-diff invokes xxdiff for all modified files in the given Subversion checkout area.

- **xx-svn-resolve**

  xx-svn-resolve invokes xxdiff with a 3-way merge view for all files in a Subversion checkout whose conflicts need to be resolved.  Depending on the exit status, xxdiff also calls 'svn resolve' on the files.

- **xx-svn-review**

  xx-svn-review exports two SVN revision and reviews them.

## SEE ALSO

- */usr/share/doc/xxdiff-scripts/html/xxdiff-scripts.html*

  A description of the Python scripts and infrastructure that is provided around xxdiff, to facilitate implementing processes requiring display and selection of differences.

- */usr/share/doc/xxdiff-scripts/txt/xxdiff-scripts.txt.gz*

  The above documentation in plain text.

- [xxdiff(1)](/xxdiff/1.md)

  The xxdiff manual page

## AUTHOR

xxdiff was written by Martin Blais \<blais@furius.ca\>

This manual page was written by Y Giridhar Appaji Nag \<giridhar@appaji.net\> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).