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This article introduces the knowledge about "how to use Linux diffstat command". In the actual case operation process, many people will encounter such difficulties. Next, let Xiaobian lead you to learn how to deal with these situations! I hope you can read carefully and learn something!

Diffstat is used to display a histogram of diff output, showing the different statistics of diff comparing two files. Users can also use it directly.| The diff command outputs results directly to diffstat command for statistical results display.

diffstat Histogram showing diff command output information

Supplementary note When using this command, if the file or subdirectory being compared is not in the current directory, the full path should be used.

syntax diffstat(option)(parameter) option-n: specifies the length of the file name, the specified length must be greater than or equal to the longest file name of all files; -p: same as the-n parameter, but includes the path of the file; -w: specifies the width of the field to output; -v: displays version information. Parameter file: Specifies the output information file in which the diff command is saved.

The instance compares files of the same name "testf.txt" in directories "test1" and "test2" using diff command. Then use diffstat command to display statistics of the results, enter the following command:

diff test1 test2 | diffstat #Statistical display of comparison results Note: Using this command can be very convenient to achieve statistical display functions.

For viewing the contents of the file, the user can view it through the cat command. The specific operations are as follows:

cat test1/testf.txt #View the contents of test1/testf abc def ghi jkl mno pqr stu vws cat test2/testf.txt #View the contents of test2/testf abc def ghi jkl mno From the above file content display, you can see the difference between the two file contents. Now run the command just now to statistically display the results of the file comparison. The results are as follows:

testfile | 2 +- #Statistics output shows 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) The content of "Linux diffstat command how to use" is introduced here, thank you for reading. If you want to know more about industry-related knowledge, you can pay attention to the website. Xiaobian will output more high-quality practical articles for everyone!

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