BOOK/appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml

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