NAME

cif-diff - A tool to compare two mmCIF files

SYNOPSIS

cif-diff [OPTION] file1 file2

DESCRIPTION

The mmCIF format does not specify the order in which categories or fields should be recorded. Using this tool, you can reorder a second file in the same way as the first before comparing the content making it easier to spot differences.

OPTIONS

--category=arg: Limit the comparison to this category, default is to show differences in all categories. This option can be specified multiple times.
--max-diff-count=nr: Display at most nr items per category. Default is 5 items, if you specify zero the number of items will unlimited.
This option has no effect when the --text option is specified.
--text: Default is to display the differences in some kind of summary. But if you prefer to use a more graphical diff: this option will use vimdiff to display the differences.
--icase: Pass the ignore case option to vimdiff.
--iwhite: Pass the ignore white option to vimdiff.
--verbose,-v: Be more verbose, useful to diagnose validation errors.

AUTHOR

Written by Maarten L. Hekkelman <maarten@hekkelman.com>

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