Diffutils
From Christoph's Personal Wiki
Diffutils are a GNU collection of diff utilities.
Utilities
- diff
- diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line.
- cmp
- 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.
- diff3
- 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.
- sdiff
- The sdiff command can be used to list diff of two files side by side or merge two files interactively.