DIFFMON

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: February 22nd, 2002
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NAME

diffmon - Monitor files on your system.

diffmon [options]

This manual page documents briefly the diffmon command.

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.