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NLDIFF

Section: Husky - Portable Fidonet Software (1)
Updated: nltools
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NAME

nldiff - Applies a Nodediff file to a given Nodelist  

SYNOPSIS

nldiff [-d] [-n] /path/to/nodelist /path/to/nodediff  

DESCRIPTION

nldiff are utility in the nltools package. It applies a Nodediff file to a given Nodelist. It has no intelligence as to determining which of multiple Nodediff files is the correct one (you have to use other tools for this), but it expects the Nodelist filename and the Nodediff filename as explicit arguments with the correct day file name extension.
You normally do not need to call nldiff manually, nldiff is designed to be called automatically by nlupdate.

nldiff is a part of the Husky Project (nltools module) but nldiff doesn't use config file.  

OPTIONS

-d
Delete the Nodediff file after the process succeeds. This option may be omitted.
-n
Delete the old Nodelist file after the process succeeds. This option may be omitted.
/path/to/nodelist
The Nodelist to patch. This parameter is mandatory.
/path/to/nodediff
The Nodediff to be used. This parameter is mandatory.
 

EXIT STATUS

0
new nodelist is generated
8
nldiff can't make new nodelist.
 

EXAMPLES

nldiff NODELIST.260 NODEDIFF.267

Builds NODELIST.267 from NODELIST.260 and NODEDIFF.267

nldiff -d -n NODELIST.260 NODEDIFF.267

Same as above, but will delete old Nodelist (NODELIST.260) and the used Nodediff (NODEDIFF.267) after process succeeds. New Nodelist (NODELIST.267) will stay in the nodelists directory.  

SEE ALSO

nlupdate(1), ulc(1), nlcrc(1), info fidoconfig  

BUGS

nldiff reports about problems to standard error stream but not to log file. This fact makes some troubles for using nldiff from nlupdate in scripts or via cron sheduler.  

CONFORMING TO

nlcrc is conformed with FTS-5000.001 and (obsoleted) FTS-0005.  

NOTES

All Husky-Software is written by various developers. For detailed information about the Husky-Team take a look at http://husky.sourceforge.net/team.html.  

AUTHOR

This manual page was written initially by Joerg Jaspert (JJ) <joerg@goliathbbs.dnsalias.net>, and modified by other Husky developers.

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXIT STATUS
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
BUGS
CONFORMING TO
NOTES
AUTHOR
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