A.10. Diffutils

A.10.1. Official Download Location

Diffutils (2.8.1):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/

A.10.2. Contents of Diffutils

The programs from this package show you the differences between two files or directories. It's most common use is to create software patches.

Installed programs: cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff

A.10.3.

A.10.4. Short descriptions

cmp compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they differ.

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.

A.10.5.

A.10.6. Diffutils Installation Dependencies

Diffutils depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.