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