6.41. Diffutils-2.8.1

The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences between files or directories.

Approximate build time: 0.1 SBU

Required disk space: 7.5 MB

Diffutils installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed

6.41.1. Installation of Diffutils

Prepare Diffutils for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Install the package:

make install

Installed programs: cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff

cmp: Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they differ
diff: Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in the files differ
diff3: Compares three files line by line
sdiff: Merges two files and interactively outputs the results