Information about the package, diffutils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The diffutils package is designed for, A GNU collection of diff utilities.
Package Name:
diffutils
Summary:
A GNU collection of diff utilities
Description:
Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff. Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both sets of changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively. Install diffutils if you need to compare text files.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.8.1
Release:
28.el6
Size:
575 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
anaconda-CentOS-201303020151.x86_64
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the diffutils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install diffutils
This command will install diffutils on the server.
yum remove diffutils
This command will un-install diffutils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove diffutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove diffutils
This command will un-install diffutils on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove diffutils when using the -y flag.
yum update diffutils
This command will update diffutils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove diffutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update diffutils
This command will update diffutils to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove diffutils when using the -y flag.
yum info diffutils
This command will show you core information about the diffutils package.
yum deplist diffutils
This command will show you the dependencies for diffutils. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update diffutils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on diffutils. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.