Linux System - Table 12 > Packages - Table 1 & 2 > diffutils

\"Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff. Diffcompares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmpcommand shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, orcmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. Thediff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can beused when two people have made independent changes to a commonoriginal; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both persons'changes and warnings about confl\"