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# Diffutils

## Contents

The Diffutils package contains the cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff programs.

## Description

### cmp and diff

cmp and diff both compare two files and report their differences. Both programs have extra options which compare files in different situations.

### diff3

The difference between diff and diff3 is that diff comprares 2 files, diff3 compares 3 files.

### sdiff

sdiff merges two files and interactively outputs the results.

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