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.

Installation

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 --release

Example

cat <<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

License

diffutils is licensed under the MIT and Apache Licenses - see the LICENSE-MIT or LICENSE-APACHE files for details