source4/lib/registry/man/regdiff.1.xml

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   3 <refentry id="regdiff.1">
   4
   5 <refmeta>
   6         <refentrytitle>regdiff</refentrytitle>
   7         <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
   8 </refmeta>
   9
  10
  11 <refnamediv>
  12         <refname>regdiff</refname>
  13         <refpurpose>Diff program for Windows registry files</refpurpose>
  14 </refnamediv>
  15
  16 <refsynopsisdiv>
  17         <cmdsynopsis>
  18                 <command>regdiff</command>
  19                 <arg choice="opt">--help</arg>
  20                 <arg choice="opt">--backend=BACKEND</arg>
  21                 <arg choice="opt">--backend=BACKEND</arg>
  22                 <arg choice="opt">--credentials=CREDENTIALS</arg>
  23                 <arg choice="opt">--credentials=CREDENTIALS</arg>
  24                 <arg choice="opt">location</arg>
  25                 <arg choice="opt">location</arg>
  26         </cmdsynopsis>
  27 </refsynopsisdiv>
  28
  29 <refsect1>
  30         <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
  31
  32         <para>regdiff compares two Windows registry files key by key
  33                 and value by value and generates a text file that contains the
  34                 differences between the two files.</para>
  35
  36         <para>A file generated by regdiff can later be applied to a
  37                 registry file by the regpatch utility. </para>
  38
  39         <para>regdiff and regpatch use the same file format as
  40                 the regedit32.exe utility from Windows.</para>
  41
  42 </refsect1>
  43
  44 <refsect1>
  45         <title>OPTIONS</title>
  46
  47         <variablelist>
  48                 <varlistentry>
  49                 <term>--help</term>
  50                 <listitem><para>
  51                 Show list of available options.</para></listitem>
  52                 </varlistentry>
  53
  54                 <varlistentry>
  55                         <term>--backend BACKEND</term>
  56                         <listitem><para>Name of backend to load. Possible values are:
  57                                         w95, nt4, gconf, dir and rpc. The default is <emphasis>dir</emphasis>.
  58                                 </para>
  59                                 <para>
  60                                         This argument can be specified twice: once for the first
  61                                         registry file and once for the second.
  62                 </para></listitem>
  63                 </varlistentry>
  64
  65                 <varlistentry>
  66                 <term>--credentials=CREDENTIALS</term>
  67                 <listitem><para>
  68                                 Credentials to use, if any. Password should be separated from user name by a percent sign.
  69                                 </para>
  70                                 <para>
  71                                         This argument can be specified twice: once for the first
  72                                         registry file and once for the second.
  73                 </para></listitem>
  74                 </varlistentry>
  75         </variablelist>
  76 </refsect1>
  77
  78 <refsect1>
  79         <title>VERSION</title>
  80
  81         <para>This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.</para>
  82 </refsect1>
  83
  84 <refsect1>
  85         <title>SEE ALSO</title>
  86
  87         <para>gregedit, regshell, regpatch, regtree, samba, patch, diff</para>
  88
  89 </refsect1>
  90
  91 <refsect1>
  92         <title>AUTHOR</title>
  93
  94         <para>This utility is part of the <ulink url="http://www.samba.org/">Samba</ulink> suite, which is developed by the global <ulink url="http://www.samba.org/samba/team/">Samba Team</ulink>.</para>
  95
  96         <para>This manpage and regdiff were written by Jelmer Vernooij. </para>
  97
  98 </refsect1>
  99
 100 </refentry>