10-12-2006
Whenever you pipe things into a loop, that loop becomes its own process, with it's own seperate process space -- which inherits variables you already have, but things it sets don't propogate back.
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kdiff3
KDIFF3(1) General Commands Manual KDIFF3(1)
NAME
KDiff3 -- compares two or three input files or directories
SYNOPSIS
KDiff3 [QT options] [KDE options] [KDiff3 options] [File1/base] [File2] [File3]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the KDiff3 tool.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. For comprehensive help,
please see khelpcenter help:/kdiff3.
KDiff3 is a program that
o compares or merges two or three text input files or directories
o shows the differences line by line and character by character
o provides an automatic merge-facility and
o an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts
o supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs
o supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.)
o Printing of differences
o Manual alignment of lines
o Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$)
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
below. For a full summary of options, run KDiff3 --help.
-m, --merge
Merge the input.
-b, --base file
Explicit base file. For compatibility with certain tools.
-o, --output file
Output file. Implies -m. E.g.: -o newfile.txt
--out file
Output file, again. (For compatibility with certain tools.)
--auto No GUI if all conflicts are auto-solvable. (Needs -o file)
--qall Don't solve conflicts automatically. (For compatibility...)
-L1 alias
Visible name replacement for first file/base file.
-L2 alias
Visible name replacement for second file.
-L3 alias
Visible name replacement for third file.
-L, --fname alias
Visible name replacement. May by supplied for each input.
--cs string
Change a setting, e. g. --cs "AutoAdvance=1".
--confighelp
Show a list of all settings and their values.
--config file
Use a different settings file.
--author
Show author of program.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
--license
Show license of program.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Eike Sauer <eike@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to
copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 (or, at your option, any later
version published by the Free Software Foundation).
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
KDIFF3(1)