The goal of this package is to be a drop-in replacement for the diffutils commands (diff, cmp, diff3, sdiff) in Rust.
Based on the incomplete diff generator in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest.rs, and made to be compatible with GNU's diff and patch tools.
Ensure you have Rust installed on your system. You can install Rust through rustup.
Clone the repository and build the project using Cargo:
git clone https://github.com/uutils/diffutils.git
cd diffutils
cargo build --releasecat <<EOF >fruits_old.txt Apple Banana Cherry EOF cat <<EOF >fruits_new.txt Apple Fig Cherry EOF $ cargo run -- -u fruits_old.txt fruits_new.txt Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.00s Running `target/debug/diffutils -u fruits_old.txt fruits_new.txt` --- fruits_old.txt +++ fruits_new.txt @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ Apple -Banana +Fig Cherry
diffutils is licensed under the MIT and Apache Licenses - see the LICENSE-MIT or LICENSE-APACHE files for details