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Last change on this file since 4e7ed7a was 788746b, checked in by Jonathan Norman <jon@…>, 13 years ago

Added test to diffutils

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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]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
[e0e40d3]28 <para os="a">Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
[3f8be484]29
[e0e40d3]30<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]31
[7691941]32 <para os="s1">Diffutils wants <command>ed</command> as the default editor.
33 The following sed will change the default to <command>vim</command>:</para>
[6a5fd75]34
[4ff3f92]35<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i 's@\(^#define DEFAULT_EDITOR_PROGRAM \).*@\1"vi"@' lib/config.h</userinput></screen>
[bf252b7]36
[e0e40d3]37 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
[3f8be484]38
[e0e40d3]39<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]40
[788746b]41 <para os="e">To test the results, issue: <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
[3f8be484]42
[e0e40d3]43 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]44
[e0e40d3]45<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]46
47 </sect2>
48
49 <sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content">
50 <title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
51
52 <segmentedlist>
53 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
54
55 <seglistitem>
56 <seg>cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff</seg>
57 </seglistitem>
58 </segmentedlist>
59
60 <variablelist>
61 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
62 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
63 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
64
65 <varlistentry id="cmp">
66 <term><command>cmp</command></term>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes
69 they differ</para>
70 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp">
71 <primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary>
72 </indexterm>
73 </listitem>
74 </varlistentry>
75
76 <varlistentry id="diff">
77 <term><command>diff</command></term>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in
80 the files differ</para>
81 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff">
82 <primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary>
83 </indexterm>
84 </listitem>
85 </varlistentry>
86
87 <varlistentry id="diff3">
88 <term><command>diff3</command></term>
89 <listitem>
90 <para>Compares three files line by line</para>
91 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3">
92 <primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary>
93 </indexterm>
94 </listitem>
95 </varlistentry>
96
97 <varlistentry id="sdiff">
98 <term><command>sdiff</command></term>
99 <listitem>
100 <para>Merges two files and interactively outputs the results</para>
101 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff">
102 <primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary>
103 </indexterm>
104 </listitem>
105 </varlistentry>
106
107 </variablelist>
108
109 </sect2>
110
111</sect1>
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