BOOK/appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml

   1 <sect2><title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
   2
   3 <para>Last checked against version &diffutils-contversion;.</para>
   4
   5 <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
   6 <para>cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff</para></sect3>
   7
   8 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
   9
  10 <sect4><title>cmp and diff</title>
  11 <para>cmp and diff both compare two files and report their differences. Both
  12 programs have extra options which compare files in
  13 different situations.</para></sect4>
  14
  15 <sect4><title>diff3</title>
  16 <para>The difference between diff and diff3 is that diff compares 2 files,
  17 diff3 compares 3 files.</para></sect4>
  18
  19 <sect4><title>sdiff</title>
  20 <para>sdiff merges two files and interactively outputs
  21 the results.</para></sect4>
  22
  23 </sect3>
  24
  25 </sect2>
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