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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
3 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
4 %general-entities;
5]>
6<sect1 id="ch-system-diffutils" xreflabel="Diffutils" role="wrap">
7<title>Diffutils-&diffutils-version;</title>
8<?dbhtml filename="diffutils.html"?>
9
10<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils"><primary sortas="a-Diffutils">Diffutils</primary></indexterm>
11
12<sect2 role="package"><title/>
13<para>The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences
14between files or directories.</para>
15
16<segmentedlist>
17<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
18<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
19<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>7.5 MB</seg></seglistitem>
20</segmentedlist>
21
22<segmentedlist>
23<segtitle>Diffutils installation depends on</segtitle>
24<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC,
25Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
26</segmentedlist>
27</sect2>
28
29<sect2 role="installation">
30<title>Installation of Diffutils</title>
31
32<para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
33
34<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
35
36<para>Compile the package:</para>
37
38<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
39
40<para>Install it:</para>
41
42<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
43
44</sect2>
45
46
47<sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content"><title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
48
49<segmentedlist>
50<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
51<seglistitem><seg>cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff</seg></seglistitem>
52</segmentedlist>
53
54<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
55
56<varlistentry>
57<term id="cmp"><command>cmp</command></term>
58<listitem>
59<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp"><primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary></indexterm>
60<para>compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they differ.</para>
61</listitem>
62</varlistentry>
63
64<varlistentry>
65<term id="diff"><command>diff</command></term>
66<listitem>
67<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff"><primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary></indexterm>
68<para>compares two files or directories and reports which lines in the files differ.</para>
69</listitem>
70</varlistentry>
71
72<varlistentry>
73<term id="diff3"><command>diff3</command></term>
74<listitem>
75<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3"><primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary></indexterm>
76<para>compares three files line by line.</para>
77</listitem>
78</varlistentry>
79
80<varlistentry>
81<term id="sdiff"><command>sdiff</command></term>
82<listitem>
83<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff"><primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary></indexterm>
84<para>merges two files and interactively outputs the results.</para>
85</listitem>
86</varlistentry>
87</variablelist>
88
89</sect2>
90
91</sect1>
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