<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> %general-entities; ]> <sect1 id="ch-system-diffutils" xreflabel="Diffutils" role="wrap"> <title>Diffutils-&diffutils-version;</title> <?dbhtml filename="diffutils.html"?> <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils"><primary sortas="a-Diffutils">Diffutils</primary></indexterm> <sect2 role="package"><title/> <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</title> <para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen> <para>Compile the package:</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> <para>Install it:</para> <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> </sect2> <sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content"><title>Contents of Diffutils</title> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> <seglistitem><seg>cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff</seg></seglistitem> </segmentedlist> <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title> <varlistentry id="cmp"> <term><command>cmp</command></term> <listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp"><primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary></indexterm> <para>compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they differ.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry id="diff"> <term><command>diff</command></term> <listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff"><primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary></indexterm> <para>compares two files or directories and reports which lines in the files differ.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry id="diff3"> <term><command>diff3</command></term> <listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3"><primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary></indexterm> <para>compares three files line by line.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry id="sdiff"> <term><command>sdiff</command></term> <listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff"><primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary></indexterm> <para>merges two files and interactively outputs the results.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </sect2> </sect1>