About:
Diffutils contains the GNU diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp utilities. Their features are a superset of the Unix features and they are significantly faster. Cmp has been moved into this package from the GNU textutils package. These programs are usually used for creating patch files.

Author:
The GNU Project <gnu [at] gnu [dot] org> [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.8.1.tar.gz

Trove categories: [change]

[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Software Development

Dependencies: [change]
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 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.8.1	10-Apr-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Directory Comparison!
by Ted Behling - Jul 21st 2001 06:28:20

I just accidentally realized that diff will actually compare entire directory structures, and print the diffs between all files in a neat report! I was originally thinking of writing a directory-recursion script in Perl to do this very thing. I was rather blown away with both the clarity and usefulness of the report.

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Ted Behling Web Application Developer Monarch Information Systems, Inc.

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