%general-entities; ]> Diffutils-&diffutils-version; Diffutils <para>The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences between files or directories.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>7.5 MB</seg></seglistitem> </segmentedlist> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>Diffutils installation depends on</segtitle> <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Diffutils Prepare Diffutils for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr Compile the package: make Install it: make install Contents of Diffutils Installed programs cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff Short descriptions cmp cmp compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they differ. diff diff compares two files or directories and reports which lines in the files differ. diff3 diff3 compares three files line by line. sdiff sdiff merges two files and interactively outputs the results.