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Manuel Canales Esparcia 54e422c1d9 Indenting chapter 6, part 4
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<sect1 id="ch-system-diffutils" role="wrap">
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<title>Diffutils-&diffutils-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils">
<primary sortas="a-Diffutils">Diffutils</primary>
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<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>5.6 MB</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc,
Grep, Make, and Sed</seg>
</seglistitem>
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</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Diffutils</title>
<para>POSIX requires the <command>diff</command> command to treat whitespace
characters according to the current locale. The following patch fixes the
non-compliance issue:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&diffutils-i18n-patch;</userinput></screen>
<para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
<para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content">
<title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
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<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff</seg>
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<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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<varlistentry id="cmp">
<term><command>cmp</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they
differ</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp">
<primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="diff">
<term><command>diff</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in
the files differ</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff">
<primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
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<varlistentry id="diff3">
<term><command>diff3</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Compares three files line by line</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3">
<primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="sdiff">
<term><command>sdiff</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Merges two files and interactively outputs the results</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff">
<primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
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