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6 <refentrytitle>regdiff</refentrytitle>
7 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
8 <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
9 <refmiscinfo class="manual">System Administration tools</refmiscinfo>
10 <refmiscinfo class="version">4.0</refmiscinfo>
15 <refname>regdiff</refname>
16 <refpurpose>Diff program for Windows registry files</refpurpose>
21 <command>regdiff</command>
22 <arg choice="opt">--help</arg>
23 <arg choice="opt">--backend=BACKEND</arg>
24 <arg choice="opt">--backend=BACKEND</arg>
25 <arg choice="opt">--credentials=CREDENTIALS</arg>
26 <arg choice="opt">--credentials=CREDENTIALS</arg>
27 <arg choice="opt">location</arg>
28 <arg choice="opt">location</arg>
33 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
35 <para>regdiff compares two Windows registry files key by key
36 and value by value and generates a text file that contains the
37 differences between the two files.</para>
39 <para>A file generated by regdiff can later be applied to a
40 registry file by the regpatch utility. </para>
42 <para>regdiff and regpatch use the same file format as
43 the regedit32.exe utility from Windows.</para>
48 <title>OPTIONS</title>
54 Show list of available options.</para></listitem>
58 <term>--backend BACKEND</term>
59 <listitem><para>Name of backend to load. Possible values are:
60 creg, regf, dir and rpc. The default is <emphasis>dir</emphasis>.
63 This argument can be specified twice: once for the first
64 registry file and once for the second.
69 <term>--credentials=CREDENTIALS</term>
71 Credentials to use, if any. Password should be separated from user name by a percent sign.
74 This argument can be specified twice: once for the first
75 registry file and once for the second.
82 <title>VERSION</title>
84 <para>This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.</para>
88 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
90 <para>gregedit, regshell, regpatch, regtree, samba, patch, diff</para>
97 <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>
99 <para>This manpage and regdiff were written by Jelmer Vernooij. </para>