Package description for 'diffutils'

The GNU collection of diff utilities

 You can use the 'diff' command to show differences between two
 files, or each corresponding file in two directories.
 
 You can use the 'cmp' command to show 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.
 
 You can use the set of differences produced by 'diff' 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.
 
 You can use the 'diff3' command to show differences among three
 files. When two people have made independent changes to a common
 original, 'diff3' can report the differences between the original and
 the two changed versions, and can produce a merged file that contains
 both persons' changes together with warnings about conflicts.
 
 You can use the 'sdiff' command to merge two files interactively.

Various other information for package 'diffutils'   (Repository 'base')

URL: https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html

Author: The GNU Project <gnu@gnu.org>
Maintainer: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 2.8.1

Download: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/diffutils/ diffutils-2.8.1.tar.gz

Buildtime: 4081 (3) seconds (on reference hardware)
Buildtime: 5038 (9) seconds (on reference hardware)
Package Size: 0.43 MB, 19 files

Dependencies: 00-dirtree bash2 binutils bzip2 coreutils cvm findutils gawk gcc42
Dependencies: gcc42:dev gettext glibc26 glibc26:dev grep linux26-headers:dev ltrace
Dependencies: make mktemp net-tools sed sysfiles tar texinfo twoftpd ucspi-unix
Dependencies: util-linux xmame

ROCK Sources:  diffutils.cache,  diffutils.desc