diff --git a/contrib/search_compare.pl b/contrib/search_compare.pl
index 902c51076a..f004ac3987 100755
--- a/contrib/search_compare.pl
+++ b/contrib/search_compare.pl
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 #                         University of Stuttgart.  All rights reserved.
 # Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Regents of the University of California.
 #                         All rights reserved.
-# Copyright (c) 2013      Intel Inc. All rights reserved.
 # $COPYRIGHT$
 # 
 # Additional copyrights may follow
@@ -21,40 +20,19 @@
 use File::Find;
 use File::Basename;
 use File::Compare;
-use Text::Diff;
 use Getopt::Long;
+use Text::Diff;
 
-if (scalar(@ARGV) != 2) {
-    print "Usage: search_compare.pl src_dir target_dir\n";
-    exit 1;
-}
-
-my $src_dir = @ARGV[0];
-my $target_dir = @ARGV[1];
-my $len_src_dir = length($src_dir);
-my $len_tgt_dir = length($target_dir);
+my $src_arg;
+my $tgt_arg;
+my $src_dir;
+my $target_dir;
 my @src_tree = ();
 my @tgt_tree = ();
 my $flag;
-
-my $ok = Getopt::Long::GetOptions("diff" => \$diff_arg,
-                                  "debug|d" => \$debug_arg,
-                                  "help|h" => \$help_arg,
-                                  "ignore=s" => \$exclude_arg,
-    );
-
-if (!$ok || $help_arg) {
-    print "Invalid command line argument.\n\n"
-        if (!$ok);
-    print "Options:
-  --diff | -diff      Output a diff of files that were modified - turns
-                      off the output of files added/deleted
-  --debug | -d        Output lots of debug information
-  --help | -h         This help list
-  --ignore | -ignore  Name of file containing typical ignore list - e.g.,
-                      .hgignore or .gitignore\n";
-    my_exit($ok ? 0 : 1);
-}
+my $help_arg = 0;
+my $diff_file = "";
+my $diff_arg;
 
 sub construct {
     # don't process directories or links, and dont' recurse down 
@@ -88,6 +66,41 @@ sub construct {
     }
 }
 
+# Command line parameters
+
+my $ok = Getopt::Long::GetOptions("help|h" => \$help_arg,
+                                  "src=s" => \$src_arg,
+                                  "tgt=s" => \$tgt_arg,
+                                  "diff=s" => \$diff_arg,
+    );
+
+if (!$ok || $help_arg) {
+    print "Invalid command line argument.\n\n"
+        if (!$ok);
+    print "Options:
+  --diff | -diff   Output diff of changed files to specified file
+  --src | -src     Head of source directory
+  --tgt | -tgt     Head of target directory\n";
+    exit($ok ? 0 : 1);
+}
+
+if (!$src_arg || !$tgt_arg) {
+    print "Missing src or tgt directory\n";
+    exit(1);
+}
+
+$src_dir = $src_arg;
+$target_dir = $tgt_arg;
+
+if ($diff_arg) {
+    $diff_file = File::Spec->rel2abs($diff_arg);
+    unlink ($diff_file);
+    open(MYFILE, ">$diff_file");
+}
+
+my $len_src_dir = length($src_dir);
+my $len_tgt_dir = length($target_dir);
+
 # construct a tree of all files in the source directory tree
 $flag = 0;
 find(\&construct, $src_dir);
@@ -106,7 +119,6 @@ my $tgt_file;
 my @modified = ();
 my @src_pared = ();
 my $i;
-my $d;
 foreach $src (@src_tree) {
     # strip the leading elements of the path that was given to us
     $src_file = substr($src, $len_src_dir);
@@ -120,46 +132,50 @@ foreach $src (@src_tree) {
             # file has been found - ignore it
             $found = 1;
             if (compare($src, $tgt) != 0) {
-                $d = diff $src, $tgt;
-                print "Index: $tgt\n";
-                print "===================================================================\n";
-                print "$d\n";
-#                push(@modified, $src);
+                push(@modified, $src);
+                if ($diff_arg) {
+                    my $diff = diff $src, $tgt, { STYLE => "Unified" };
+                    print MYFILE $diff . "\n";
+                }
             }
             # remove this file from the target tree as it has been found
             # splice @tgt_tree, $i, 1;
             break;
         }
     }
-#    if ($found == 0) {
-#        print "Add: " . $src . "\n";
-##    } else {
-#        push(@src_pared, $src);
-#    }
+    if ($found == 0) {
+        print "Add: " . $src . "\n";
+    } else {
+        push(@src_pared, $src);
+    }
 }
 
 print "\n";
 
 # print a list of files in the target tree that need to be deleted
-#foreach $tgt (@tgt_tree) {
-#    $found = 0;
-#    $tgt_file = substr($tgt, $len_tgt_dir);
-#    foreach $src (@src_pared) {
-#        $src_file = substr($src, $len_src_dir);
-#        if ($src_file eq $tgt_file) {
-#            # file has been found - ignore it
-#            $found = 1;
-#            break;
-#        }
-#    }
-#    if ($found == 0) {
-#        print "Delete: " . $tgt . "\n";
-#    }
-#}
+foreach $tgt (@tgt_tree) {
+    $found = 0;
+    $tgt_file = substr($tgt, $len_tgt_dir);
+    foreach $src (@src_pared) {
+        $src_file = substr($src, $len_src_dir);
+        if ($src_file eq $tgt_file) {
+            # file has been found - ignore it
+            $found = 1;
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+    if ($found == 0) {
+        print "Delete: " . $tgt . "\n";
+    }
+}
 
-#print "\n";
+print "\n";
 
 # print a list of files that have been modified
-#foreach $tgt (@modified) {
-#    print "Modified: " . $tgt . "\n";
-#}
+foreach $tgt (@modified) {
+    print "Modified: " . $tgt . "\n";
+}
+
+if ($diff_arg) {
+    close(MYFILE);
+}