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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-diffutils" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="diffutils.html"?>
10
11  <title>Diffutils-&diffutils-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils">
14    <primary sortas="a-Diffutils">Diffutils</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences
21    between files or directories.</para>
22
23  </sect2>
24
25  <sect2 role="installation">
26    <title>Installation of Diffutils</title>
27
28    <para os="s1">Fix a bug that prevents locale files from being installed:</para>
29
30<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i 's:= @mkdir_p@:= /bin/mkdir -p:' po/Makefile.in.in</userinput></screen>
31
32    <para os="a">Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
33
34<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure \
35    --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
36
37    <para os="s3">Diffutils wants <command>ed</command> as the default editor
38    for <command>sdiff</command>. The following <command>sed</command> will
39    change the default to <command>vi</command>:</para>
40
41<screen os="s4"><userinput>sed -i 's@\(^#define DEFAULT_EDITOR_PROGRAM \).*@\1"vi"@' lib/config.h</userinput></screen>
42
43    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
44
45<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
46
47    <para os="e">To test the results, issue:</para>
48
49<screen os="e2"><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
50
51    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
52
53<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
54
55  </sect2>
56
57  <sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content">
58    <title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
59
60    <segmentedlist>
61      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
62
63      <seglistitem>
64        <seg>cmp, diff, diff3, sdiff</seg>
65      </seglistitem>
66    </segmentedlist>
67
68    <variablelist>
69      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
70      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
71      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
72
73      <varlistentry id="cmp">
74        <term><command>cmp</command></term>
75        <listitem>
76          <para>Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes
77          they differ</para>
78          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp">
79            <primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary>
80          </indexterm>
81        </listitem>
82      </varlistentry>
83
84      <varlistentry id="diff">
85        <term><command>diff</command></term>
86        <listitem>
87          <para>Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in
88          the files differ</para>
89          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff">
90            <primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary>
91          </indexterm>
92        </listitem>
93      </varlistentry>
94
95      <varlistentry id="diff3">
96        <term><command>diff3</command></term>
97        <listitem>
98          <para>Compares three files line by line</para>
99          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3">
100            <primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary>
101          </indexterm>
102        </listitem>
103      </varlistentry>
104
105      <varlistentry id="sdiff">
106        <term><command>sdiff</command></term>
107        <listitem>
108          <para>Merges two files and interactively outputs the results</para>
109          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff">
110            <primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary>
111          </indexterm>
112        </listitem>
113      </varlistentry>
114
115    </variablelist>
116
117  </sect2>
118
119</sect1>
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