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>

REPORTING BUGS¶

Report bugs at https://github.com/PDB-REDO/cif-tools/issues

SEE ALSO¶

cif-drop, cif-grep, cif-merge, cif-validate, cif2pdb, mmCQL, pdb2cif.