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| author | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-24 22:29:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-24 22:29:16 +0000 |
| commit | 978d0bffc413b67ead9db2d2816b916cf3d502ca (patch) | |
| tree | 785d8d08754099e55a26599f8d5ccce81b456cb4 /appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml | |
| parent | aa497295b352d45ebe2e9d1eaa4a46c49e2cf521 (diff) | |
Changing the style of the command descriptions in appendix A.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2879 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml index 6acf02110..d8653fecb 100644 --- a/appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml @@ -6,18 +6,16 @@ <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title> -<sect4><title>cmp and diff</title> -<para>cmp and diff both compare two files and report their differences. Both -programs have extra options which compare files in -different situations.</para></sect4> - -<sect4><title>diff3</title> -<para>The difference between diff and diff3 is that diff compares 2 files, -diff3 compares 3 files.</para></sect4> - -<sect4><title>sdiff</title> -<para>sdiff merges two files and interactively outputs -the results.</para></sect4> +<para><command>cmp</command> compares two files and reports whether or +in which bytes they differ.</para> + +<para><command>diff</command> compares two files or directories and reports +which lines in the files differ.</para> + +<para><command>diff3</command> compares three files line by line.</para> + +<para><command>sdiff</command> merges two files and interactively outputs +the results.</para> </sect3> |