'\" t .\" Title: regdiff .\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section] .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot .\" Date: 09/04/2024 .\" Manual: System Administration tools .\" Source: Samba 4.0 .\" Language: English .\" .TH "REGDIFF" "1" "09/04/2024" "Samba 4\&.0" "System Administration tools" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 .\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * set default formatting .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" disable hyphenation .nh .\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) .ad l .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .SH "NAME" regdiff \- Diff program for Windows registry files .SH "SYNOPSIS" .HP \w'\fBregdiff\fR\ 'u \fBregdiff\fR [\-\-help] [\-\-backend=BACKEND] [\-\-credentials=CREDENTIALS] [location] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP regdiff compares two Windows registry files key by key and value by value and generates a text file that contains the differences between the two files\&. .PP A file generated by regdiff can later be applied to a registry file by the regpatch utility\&. .PP regdiff and regpatch use the same file format as the regedit32\&.exe utility from Windows\&. .SH "OPTIONS" .PP \-\-help .RS 4 Show list of available options\&. .RE .PP \-\-backend BACKEND .RS 4 Name of backend to load\&. Possible values are: creg, regf, dir and rpc\&. The default is \fIdir\fR\&. .sp This argument can be specified twice: once for the first registry file and once for the second\&. .RE .PP \-\-credentials=CREDENTIALS .RS 4 Credentials to use, if any\&. Password should be separated from user name by a percent sign\&. .sp This argument can be specified twice: once for the first registry file and once for the second\&. .RE .SH "VERSION" .PP This man page is correct for version 4\&.0 of the Samba suite\&. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP gregedit, regshell, regpatch, regtree, samba, patch, diff .SH "AUTHOR" .PP This utility is part of the \m[blue]\fBSamba\fR\m[]\&\s-2\u[1]\d\s+2 suite, which is developed by the global \m[blue]\fBSamba Team\fR\m[]\&\s-2\u[2]\d\s+2\&. .PP This manpage and regdiff were written by Jelmer Vernooij\&. .SH "NOTES" .IP " 1." 4 Samba .RS 4 \%http://www.samba.org/ .RE .IP " 2." 4 Samba Team .RS 4 \%http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ .RE