From 978d0bffc413b67ead9db2d2816b916cf3d502ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Gronenwoud Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:29:16 +0000 Subject: 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 --- appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml | 22 ++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml') 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 @@ Program file descriptions -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 compares 2 files, -diff3 compares 3 files. - -sdiff -sdiff merges two files and interactively outputs -the results. +cmp compares two files and reports whether or +in which bytes they differ. + +diff compares two files or directories and reports +which lines in the files differ. + +diff3 compares three files line by line. + +sdiff merges two files and interactively outputs +the results. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf