BOOK/chapter06/diffutils.xml

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   8 <sect1 id="ch-system-diffutils" role="wrap">
   9   <?dbhtml filename="diffutils.html"?>
  10
  11   <sect1info condition="script">
  12     <productname>diffutils</productname>
  13     <productnumber>&diffutils-version;</productnumber>
  14     <address>&diffutils-url;</address>
  15   </sect1info>
  16
  17   <title>Diffutils-&diffutils-version;</title>
  18
  19   <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils">
  20     <primary sortas="a-Diffutils">Diffutils</primary>
  21   </indexterm>
  22
  23   <sect2 role="package">
  24     <title/>
  25
  26     <para>The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences
  27     between files or directories.</para>
  28
  29     <segmentedlist>
  30       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  31       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  32
  33       <seglistitem>
  34         <seg>&diffutils-ch6-sbu;</seg>
  35         <seg>&diffutils-ch6-du;</seg>
  36       </seglistitem>
  37     </segmentedlist>
  38
  39   </sect2>
  40
  41   <sect2 role="installation">
  42     <title>Installation of Diffutils</title>
  43
  44     <para>First fix a file so locale files are installed:</para>
  45
  46 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's:= @mkdir_p@:= /bin/mkdir -p:' po/Makefile.in.in</userinput></screen>
  47
  48     <para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
  49
  50 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  51
  52     <para>Compile the package:</para>
  53
  54 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  55
  56     <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
  57
  58 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
  59
  60     <para>The test-update-copyright.sh failure can be safely ignored.</para>
  61
  62     <para>Install the package:</para>
  63
  64 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  65
  66   </sect2>
  67
  68
  69   <sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content">
  70     <title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
  71
  72     <segmentedlist>
  73       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  74
  75       <seglistitem>
  76         <seg>cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff</seg>
  77       </seglistitem>
  78     </segmentedlist>
  79
  80     <variablelist>
  81       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  82       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  83       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  84
  85       <varlistentry id="cmp">
  86         <term><command>cmp</command></term>
  87         <listitem>
  88           <para>Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they
  89           differ</para>
  90           <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp">
  91             <primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary>
  92           </indexterm>
  93         </listitem>
  94       </varlistentry>
  95
  96       <varlistentry id="diff">
  97         <term><command>diff</command></term>
  98         <listitem>
  99           <para>Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in
 100           the files differ</para>
 101           <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff">
 102             <primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary>
 103           </indexterm>
 104         </listitem>
 105       </varlistentry>
 106
 107       <varlistentry id="diff3">
 108         <term><command>diff3</command></term>
 109         <listitem>
 110             <para>Compares three files line by line</para>
 111             <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3">
 112               <primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary>
 113             </indexterm>
 114         </listitem>
 115       </varlistentry>
 116
 117       <varlistentry id="sdiff">
 118         <term><command>sdiff</command></term>
 119         <listitem>
 120           <para>Merges two files and interactively outputs the results</para>
 121           <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff">
 122             <primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary>
 123           </indexterm>
 124         </listitem>
 125       </varlistentry>
 126
 127     </variablelist>
 128
 129   </sect2>
 130
 131 </sect1>