NAME¶
dwfilter - reformat text with dwdiff for further processing
SYNOPSIS¶
dwfilter [
OPTIONS] <
OLD FILE> <
NEW FILE>
<
POST PROCESSOR> [
POST PROCESSOR OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION¶
dwfilter reformats the text in the old file according to the contents of
the new file (or vice versa) and subsequently passes the reformated old file
and the new file through a secondary filter. It's main use is to allow visual
diff programs such as
meld and
kdiff3 to be used, eventhough a
text file has been reformated after editing. A further use is to allow the
creation of small patches even when the new text has been reformated.
dwfilter uses
dwdiff for reformatting.
OPTIONS¶
- -r, --reverse
- Reformat the new file based on the contents of the old file
instead of the default where the old file is reformated based on the
contents of the new file.
dwfilter accepts the following
dwdiff options:
-d <
delimiters>,
--delimiters=<
delimiters>
-P,
--punctuation>
-W <
whitespace>,
--whitespace=<
whitespace>
-i,
--ignore-case
-I,
--ignore-formatting
-D <
option>,
--diff-option=<
option>
-C<
num>,
--context=<
num>
-m<
num>,
--match-context=<
num>
--aggregate-changes
--wdiff-output
See the
dwdiff manual page for the meaning.
A single dash (-) as a file can be used to denote standard input. Only one file
can be read from standard input. To stop
dwfilter from interpreting
file names that start with a dash as options, one can specify a double dash
(--) after which
dwfilter will interpret any following arguments as
files to read.
BUGS¶
If you think you have found a bug, please check that you are using the latest
version of
dwdiff [
http://os.ghalkes.nl/dwdiff.html]. When reporting
bugs, please include a minimal example that demonstrates the problem.
AUTHOR¶
G.P. Halkes <dwdiff@ghalkes.nl>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2006-2010 G.P. Halkes
dwdiff is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
For more details on the license, see the file COPYING in the documentation
directory. On Un*x systems this is usually /usr/share/doc/dwdiff-2.0.4.
SEE ALSO¶
dwdiff(1),
diff(1),
meld(1),
kdiff3(1)
