lfs/appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml
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<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
<para>
The Diffutils package contains the cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff programs.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Description</title>
<sect3><title>cmp and diff</title>
<para>
cmp and diff both compare two files and report their differences. Both
programs have extra options which compare files in different situations.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>diff3</title>
<para>
The difference between diff and diff3 is that diff compares 2 files,
diff3 compares 3 files.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>sdiff</title>
<para>
sdiff merges two files and interactively outputs the results.
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>