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RE: diff utility...
Joe Saunders wrote on 13 March 2008 19:29:
> I downloaded cygwin to my XP desktop and assumed there
> would be a diff utility in th shell or utilities..
> Did not see it...
>
> Then i went online at cygwin to get the diff utility. could not find a
> pakcage...
It's there, it's just not one of the basic packages that are selected for
installation by default.
> There has to be one, what am i missing here...
The cygwin website's package search feature:
http://cygwin.com/packages/
Try putting "diff" into the search box there. Ah, quite a lot of hits, but
since you happen to know you're searching for the diff executable then it's
going to have a ".exe" extension and live in a directory called "bin", so
try "bin/diff.exe".
Then install that package using setup.exe as normal.
cheers,
DaveK
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