List of Packages
diffutils
The diffutils package provides the diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp programs.
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`diff shows differences between two files", or each corresponding file
in two directories. `cmp shows the offsets and line numbers where
two files differ. `cmp can also show all the characters that
differ between the two files, " side by side. `diff3 shows differences
among three files. `sdiff merges two files interactively.
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The set of differences produced by `diff can be used to distribute
updates to text files (such as program source code) to other people.
This method is especially useful when the differences are small compared
to the complete files. Given `diff output", " the `patch program can
update, or "patch", a copy of the file.