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Last change on this file since 29bba60 was e1153ea, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r3371@server (orig r1554): chris | 2006-05-10 14:03:44 -0700
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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/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="a">Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
29
30<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
31
32    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
33
34<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
35
36    <para os="e">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
37
38    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
39
40<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
41
42  </sect2>
43
44  <sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content">
45    <title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
46
47    <segmentedlist>
48      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
49
50      <seglistitem>
51        <seg>cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff</seg>
52      </seglistitem>
53    </segmentedlist>
54
55    <variablelist>
56      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
57      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
58      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
59
60      <varlistentry id="cmp">
61        <term><command>cmp</command></term>
62        <listitem>
63          <para>Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes
64          they differ</para>
65          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp">
66            <primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary>
67          </indexterm>
68        </listitem>
69      </varlistentry>
70
71      <varlistentry id="diff">
72        <term><command>diff</command></term>
73        <listitem>
74          <para>Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in
75          the files differ</para>
76          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff">
77            <primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary>
78          </indexterm>
79        </listitem>
80      </varlistentry>
81
82      <varlistentry id="diff3">
83        <term><command>diff3</command></term>
84        <listitem>
85          <para>Compares three files line by line</para>
86          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3">
87            <primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary>
88          </indexterm>
89        </listitem>
90      </varlistentry>
91
92      <varlistentry id="sdiff">
93        <term><command>sdiff</command></term>
94        <listitem>
95          <para>Merges two files and interactively outputs the results</para>
96          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff">
97            <primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary>
98          </indexterm>
99        </listitem>
100      </varlistentry>
101
102    </variablelist>
103
104  </sect2>
105
106</sect1>
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