%general-entities; ]> Diffutils-&diffutils-version; Diffutils <para>The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences between files or directories.</para> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Diffutils "Fix a file so locale files are installed:" sed -i 's:= @mkdir_p@:= /bin/mkdir -p:' po/Makefile.in.in Prepare Diffutils for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr Diffutils wants ed as the default editor. The following sed will change the default to vim: sed -i 's@\(^#define DEFAULT_EDITOR_PROGRAM \).*@\1"vi"@' lib/config.h 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 whether or in which bytes they differ cmp diff Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in the files differ diff diff3 Compares three files line by line diff3 sdiff Merges two files and interactively outputs the results sdiff