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         <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
   9         <refmiscinfo class="manual">System Administration tools</refmiscinfo>
  10         <refmiscinfo class="version">4.0</refmiscinfo>
  11 </refmeta>
  12
  13
  14 <refnamediv>
  15         <refname>regdiff</refname>
  16         <refpurpose>Diff program for Windows registry files</refpurpose>
  17 </refnamediv>
  18
  19 <refsynopsisdiv>
  20         <cmdsynopsis>
  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>
  29         </cmdsynopsis>
  30 </refsynopsisdiv>
  31
  32 <refsect1>
  33         <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
  34
  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>
  38
  39         <para>A file generated by regdiff can later be applied to a
  40                 registry file by the regpatch utility. </para>
  41
  42         <para>regdiff and regpatch use the same file format as
  43                 the regedit32.exe utility from Windows.</para>
  44
  45 </refsect1>
  46
  47 <refsect1>
  48         <title>OPTIONS</title>
  49
  50         <variablelist>
  51                 <varlistentry>
  52                 <term>--help</term>
  53                 <listitem><para>
  54                 Show list of available options.</para></listitem>
  55                 </varlistentry>
  56
  57                 <varlistentry>
  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>.
  61                                 </para>
  62                                 <para>
  63                                         This argument can be specified twice: once for the first
  64                                         registry file and once for the second.
  65                 </para></listitem>
  66                 </varlistentry>
  67
  68                 <varlistentry>
  69                 <term>--credentials=CREDENTIALS</term>
  70                 <listitem><para>
  71                                 Credentials to use, if any. Password should be separated from user name by a percent sign.
  72                                 </para>
  73                                 <para>
  74                                         This argument can be specified twice: once for the first
  75                                         registry file and once for the second.
  76                 </para></listitem>
  77                 </varlistentry>
  78         </variablelist>
  79 </refsect1>
  80
  81 <refsect1>
  82         <title>VERSION</title>
  83
  84         <para>This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.</para>
  85 </refsect1>
  86
  87 <refsect1>
  88         <title>SEE ALSO</title>
  89
  90         <para>gregedit, regshell, regpatch, regtree, samba, patch, diff</para>
  91
  92 </refsect1>
  93
  94 <refsect1>
  95         <title>AUTHOR</title>
  96
  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>
  98
  99         <para>This manpage and regdiff were written by Jelmer Vernooij. </para>
 100
 101 </refsect1>
 102
 103 </refentry>