diffutils

Description

Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff.

• Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line.
• The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ,

or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files.

• The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be

used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both persons' changes and warnings about conflicts.

• The sdiff command can be used to list diff of two files side by side or

merge two files interactively.

Install diffutils if you need to compare text files.

Application availability

This application is available from the following Mandriva media:

cooker i586 main-release - View package information

2008.0 x86_64 main-release - View package information

2008.0 i586 main-release - View package information

cooker x86_64 main-release - View package information