BOOK/chapter06/diffutils.xml

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   6 <sect1 id="ch-system-diffutils" xreflabel="Diffutils">
   7 <title>Diffutils-&diffutils-version;</title>
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  10 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils"><primary sortas="a-Diffutils">Diffutils</primary></indexterm>
  11
  12 <para>The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences
  13 between files or directories.</para>
  14
  15 <screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
  16 &diskspace; 7.5 MB</screen>
  17
  18 <para>Diffutils installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC,
  19 Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para>
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  22
  23 <sect2>
  24 <title>Installation of Diffutils</title>
  25
  26 <para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
  27
  28 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  29
  30 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  31
  32 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  33
  34 <para>Install it:</para>
  35
  36 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  37
  38 </sect2>
  39
  40
  41 <sect2 id="contents-diffutils"><title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
  42
  43 <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff</para>
  44
  45 </sect2>
  46
  47
  48 <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
  49
  50 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp"><primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary></indexterm>
  51 <para id="cmp"><command>cmp</command> compares two files and reports whether or
  52 in which bytes they differ.</para>
  53
  54 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff"><primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary></indexterm>
  55 <para id="diff"><command>diff</command> compares two files or directories and reports
  56 which lines in the files differ.</para>
  57
  58 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3"><primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary></indexterm>
  59 <para id="diff3"><command>diff3</command> compares three files line by line.</para>
  60
  61 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff"><primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary></indexterm>
  62 <para id="sdiff"><command>sdiff</command> merges two files and interactively outputs
  63 the results.</para>
  64
  65 </sect2>
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  69 </sect1>