BOOK/chapter08/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-fin-sbu;</seg>
  35         <seg>&diffutils-fin-du;</seg>
  36       </seglistitem>
  37     </segmentedlist>
  38
  39   </sect2>
  40
  41   <sect2 role="installation">
  42     <title>Installation of Diffutils</title>
  43
  44     <para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
  45
  46 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  47
  48     <para>Compile the package:</para>
  49
  50 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  51
  52     <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
  53
  54 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
  55
  56     <para>Install the package:</para>
  57
  58 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  59
  60   </sect2>
  61
  62
  63   <sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content">
  64     <title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
  65
  66     <segmentedlist>
  67       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  68
  69       <seglistitem>
  70         <seg>cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff</seg>
  71       </seglistitem>
  72     </segmentedlist>
  73
  74     <variablelist>
  75       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  76       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  77       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  78
  79       <varlistentry id="cmp">
  80         <term><command>cmp</command></term>
  81         <listitem>
  82           <para>Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they
  83           differ</para>
  84           <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp">
  85             <primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary>
  86           </indexterm>
  87         </listitem>
  88       </varlistentry>
  89
  90       <varlistentry id="diff">
  91         <term><command>diff</command></term>
  92         <listitem>
  93           <para>Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in
  94           the files differ</para>
  95           <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff">
  96             <primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary>
  97           </indexterm>
  98         </listitem>
  99       </varlistentry>
 100
 101       <varlistentry id="diff3">
 102         <term><command>diff3</command></term>
 103         <listitem>
 104             <para>Compares three files line by line</para>
 105             <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3">
 106               <primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary>
 107             </indexterm>
 108         </listitem>
 109       </varlistentry>
 110
 111       <varlistentry id="sdiff">
 112         <term><command>sdiff</command></term>
 113         <listitem>
 114           <para>Merges two files and interactively outputs the results</para>
 115           <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff">
 116             <primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary>
 117           </indexterm>
 118         </listitem>
 119       </varlistentry>
 120
 121     </variablelist>
 122
 123   </sect2>
 124
 125 </sect1>