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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="p1">This patch adds support for Internationalization:</para>
29
30<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&diffutils-i18n-patch;</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="s1">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="s2"><userinput>sed -i 's@\(^#define DEFAULT_EDITOR_PROGRAM \).*@\1"vi"@' config.h</userinput></screen>
40
41 <para os="s3">Diffutils man-pages want to be recreated, but it requires
42 help2man. So we update the time on the files to prevent them from being
43 recreated:</para>
44
45<screen os="s4"><userinput>touch man/*.1</userinput></screen>
46
47 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
48
49<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
50
51 <para os="e">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
52
53 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
54
55<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
56
57 </sect2>
58
59 <sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content">
60 <title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
61
62 <segmentedlist>
63 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
64
65 <seglistitem>
66 <seg>cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff</seg>
67 </seglistitem>
68 </segmentedlist>
69
70 <variablelist>
71 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
72 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
73 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
74
75 <varlistentry id="cmp">
76 <term><command>cmp</command></term>
77 <listitem>
78 <para>Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes
79 they differ</para>
80 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp">
81 <primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary>
82 </indexterm>
83 </listitem>
84 </varlistentry>
85
86 <varlistentry id="diff">
87 <term><command>diff</command></term>
88 <listitem>
89 <para>Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in
90 the files differ</para>
91 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff">
92 <primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary>
93 </indexterm>
94 </listitem>
95 </varlistentry>
96
97 <varlistentry id="diff3">
98 <term><command>diff3</command></term>
99 <listitem>
100 <para>Compares three files line by line</para>
101 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3">
102 <primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary>
103 </indexterm>
104 </listitem>
105 </varlistentry>
106
107 <varlistentry id="sdiff">
108 <term><command>sdiff</command></term>
109 <listitem>
110 <para>Merges two files and interactively outputs the results</para>
111 <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff">
112 <primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary>
113 </indexterm>
114 </listitem>
115 </varlistentry>
116
117 </variablelist>
118
119 </sect2>
120
121</sect1>
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