Diffutils-3.12

The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences between files or directories.

Approximate build time: 0.5 SBU
Required disk space: 51 MB
SHA256 Checksum: 7c8b7f9fc8609141fdea9cece85249d308624391ff61dedaf528fcb337727dfd

Installation of Diffutils

Prepare Diffutils for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

make

To test the results, issue:

make check

Install the package:

make install

Contents of Diffutils

Installed programs: cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff

Short Descriptions

cmp

Compares two files and reports any differences byte by byte

diff

Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in the files differ

diff3

Compares three files line by line

sdiff

Merges two files and interactively outputs the results