How To Install diffutils on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install diffutils
on CentOS 7.
What is diffutils
Diffutils includes four utilities 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.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install diffutils
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install diffutils.
Install diffutils on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install diffutils
using yum
by running the following command:
Install diffutils on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install diffutils
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall diffutils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the diffutils
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install diffutils
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.