Commands in the package
cmpdiffdiff3sdiff
About diffutils
From Debian's package description
The diffutils package provides the diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp programs.
`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.
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.
From Debian's description of the diffutils package, under that package's license.
Dependencies
Depends on
libc6
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Sources and licenses
- Name: the Debian package name.
- Summary: Debian's short description of the diffutils package, under that package's license.
- Description: Debian's description of the diffutils package, under that package's license.
- Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
- Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.
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