NAME

rdiff - compute and apply signature­based file differences

SYNOPSYS

rdiff [options] signature old­file signature­file

rdiff [options] delta signature­file new­file delta­file

rdiff [options] patch basis­file delta­file new­file

DESCRIPTION

In every case where a filename must be specified, - may be used instead to mean either standard input or standard output as appropriate.

RETURN VALUE

0 for successful completion, 1 for environmental problems (file not found, invalid options, IO error, etc), 2 for a corrupt file and 3 for an internal error or unhandled situation in librsync or rdiff.

SEE ALSO

librsync(3)

AUTHOR

Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>

The ideas in rdiff draw heavily on the work of Andrew Tridgell and Paulus Mackerras, the original developers of rsync.

rproxy/rdiff development has been supported in part by Linuxcare, Inc, a leading provider of enterprise services for open source software.