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Last change on this file since 89306f9 was 1bcea75, checked in by William Harrington <kb0iic@…>, 11 years ago

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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 file so locale files are 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 --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
35
36 <para os="s3">Diffutils wants <command>ed</command> as the default editor.
37 The following sed will change the default to <command>vim</command>:</para>
38
39<screen os="s4"><userinput>sed -i 's@\(^#define DEFAULT_EDITOR_PROGRAM \).*@\1"vi"@' lib/config.h</userinput></screen>
40
41 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
42
43<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
44
45 <para os="e">To test the results, issue:</para>
46
47<screen os="e2"><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
48
49 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
50
51<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
52
53 </sect2>
54
55 <sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content">
56 <title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
57
58 <segmentedlist>
59 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
60
61 <seglistitem>
62 <seg>cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff</seg>
63 </seglistitem>
64 </segmentedlist>
65
66 <variablelist>
67 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
68 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
69 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
70
71 <varlistentry id="cmp">
72 <term><command>cmp</command></term>
73 <listitem>
74 <para>Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes
75 they differ</para>
76 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp">
77 <primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary>
78 </indexterm>
79 </listitem>
80 </varlistentry>
81
82 <varlistentry id="diff">
83 <term><command>diff</command></term>
84 <listitem>
85 <para>Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in
86 the files differ</para>
87 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff">
88 <primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary>
89 </indexterm>
90 </listitem>
91 </varlistentry>
92
93 <varlistentry id="diff3">
94 <term><command>diff3</command></term>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>Compares three files line by line</para>
97 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3">
98 <primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary>
99 </indexterm>
100 </listitem>
101 </varlistentry>
102
103 <varlistentry id="sdiff">
104 <term><command>sdiff</command></term>
105 <listitem>
106 <para>Merges two files and interactively outputs the results</para>
107 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff">
108 <primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary>
109 </indexterm>
110 </listitem>
111 </varlistentry>
112
113 </variablelist>
114
115 </sect2>
116
117</sect1>
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