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Diffutils - Finds differences between and among files

A group of utilities that displays difference between and among text files. 'diff' outputs the difference between two files in any of several formats. If the files are identical, it normally produces no ouput; if they are binary (non-text) it normally reports only that they are different. 'cmp' shows the offsets and files numbers where two files differ; it can also show, side by side, all the characters that differ between the two files. 'sdiff' merges two files interactively. 'diff3' shows differences among three files. If two people have made independent changes to a common original, diff3 reports that difference between the original and the two changed versions, and can produce a merged file that contains both persons' changes along with warnings about conflicts.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.8.1.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/diffutils/
Version 2.8.1 (stable) released on 2002-04-10
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual available from http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/diff.html; Printed user manual available from http://www.network-theory.co.uk/diff/manual/
Support contacts

Bug List<bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
  • The GNU Project

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/diffutils http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=961
Interfacescommand line, terminal
Programsdiff, cmp, sdiff, diff3
Source languagesC
Related programswdiff, gtkdiff, tkdiff, Meld

Entry information

Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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