Information about the apt package "diffutils".

Package

diffutils

Version

1:3.3-3

Priority

required

Essential

yes

Section

utils

Origin

Ubuntu

Maintainer

Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

Original Maintainer

Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>

Bugs

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug

Installed Size

426 kB

Pre Depends

libc6 (>= 2.17)

Suggests

diffutils-doc, wdiff

Replaces

diff

Homepage

http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/

Task

minimal

Supported

5y

Download Size

156 kB

APT Manual Installed

yes

APT Sources

http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

Description

File comparison utilities
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.

Install Info

bionic,now 1:3.6-1 amd64

Installed Automatically

False

Files

/./
/usr/
/usr/bin/
/usr/bin/cmp*
/usr/bin/diff*
/usr/bin/diff3*
/usr/bin/sdiff*
/usr/share/
/usr/share/doc/
/usr/share/doc/diffutils/
/usr/share/doc/diffutils/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/diffutils/copyright
/usr/share/doc/diffutils/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/info/
/usr/share/info/diffutils.info.gz
/usr/share/man/
/usr/share/man/man1/
/usr/share/man/man1/cmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/diff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/diff3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sdiff.1.gz