Diff
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diff-187-4789871
title:
Diff
text:
In computing, the utility diff is a data comparison tool that computes and displays the differences between the contents of files. Unlike edit distance notions used for other purposes, diff is line-oriented rather than character-oriented, but it is like Levenshtein distance in that it tries to determine the smallest set of deletions and insertions to create one file from the other. The utility displays the changes in one of several standard formats, such that both humans or computers can parse t
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Standard UNIX utility for file comparison
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff
date created:
2002-09-02T17:32:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T14:00:51Z
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