Dif vs. Diff — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dif and Diff
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In computing, the utility diff is a data comparison tool that computes and displays the differences between the contents of files. Unlike edit distance notions used for other purposes, diff is line-oriented rather than character-oriented, but it is like Levenshtein distance in that it tries to determine the smallest set of deletions and insertions to create one file from the other.
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"[His] flaw ... starts with a fleshy calculation, an instinct to blunt disagreement and split the diff" (Peggy Noonan).
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(slang) difference
A peach and an apricot? What's the diff?
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(computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
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(computing) The output of a diff program, a diff file.
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(automotive) differential: the differential gear in an automobile.
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(medicine) differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
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(rock climbing) A difficult route.
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To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.
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To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
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(computing) A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
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